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ANALYSIS

Has
Trump
broken
with the
GOP?
By Cathleen Decker,
Lisa Mascaro
and Noah Bierman

WASHINGTON Presi-
dent Trumps startling alli-
ance with Democrats
stemmed from his building
frustration with Republican
leaders inability to secure
the legislative victories he
assumed would come more
swiftly but its genesis is far
more certain that its poten-
tial for success.
The new relationship saw
its first result Thursday. The
Senate advanced legislation
based on Trumps deal
Wednesday with the Demo- Gerben Van Es AFP/Getty Images
cratic leaders, Rep. Nancy THE HURRICANE ruined 95% of the structures on the island that comprises St. Martin and, above, St. Maarten. BACK STORY, A2
Pelosi and Sen. Charles E.

Nuclear hurricane nears

Schumer, to extend until
Dec. 8 the governments
debt limit and funding, and
to offer the first billions in re-
lief money for victims of Hur-
ricanes Harvey and Irma.
Trump also indicated his
interest in working with
Schumer on a longer-term
deal: to void the require-
ment that Congress vote to
extend the debt ceiling, a
budget exercise that autho-
rizes the Treasury to borrow
to cover spending already
approved. But lawmakers
reluctance to cast that un-
popular vote has regularly
threatened to send the coun-
try into default.
The president also met
with Democrats from New
York and New Jersey to dis-
cuss improving transit infra-
structure in those states.
Working with Schumer, a
New York Democrat he has
[See Analysis, A8]
Russia testimony
Donald Trump Jr. tells
senators about his 2016
meeting with a Russian
lawyer. NATION, A6
Riding out the storm
in Miami: A man with
a monkey, and many
who wish to flee but
lack the money.
By Evan Halper
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.
Genaro Dacosta has a mon-
key on his back, at least
sometimes. Its a small pet
marmoset that may force
him to ride out Hurricane
Irma, now lumbering toward
his home on Miami Beach.
Dacosta wants to evacu-
ate, as the government has
ordered and as most of his
neighbors were doing
Thursday. Hes been franti-
cally calling authorities in
Tallahassee, the state capi-
tal, to get permission to
bring the monkey to a shel-
ter. So far, no luck. Hotels ar-
ent keen on allowing mon-
keys, either.
South Florida braces
for the worst after
Irma tears through
the Caribbean, killing
at least 13 people.
By Evan Halper
and Laura King
MIAMI Hurricane
Irma took aim at South Flor-
ida on Thursday, threat-
ening millions with historic
winds, huge storm surges
and unrelenting rainfall as it
left behind a trail of still-un-
charted devastation in the
Caribbean and a death toll
that climbed to at least 13.
As the monster Category
5 storm tracked west-north-
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times west with 175-mph winds,
PEOPLE prepare to board a bus out of downtown Miami. An advisory evacuation the caprices of wind and wa-
was in place for the area, and the order was mandatory in low-lying communities. ter saved impoverished
Haiti and the Dominican
Republic from a direct hit.
But Irma bore down late
On the path to Florida Thursday on other Caribbe-

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Dacosta found himself, with
his family, loading sandbags
into the back of his pickup.
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Tampa
Sunday, 2 p.m.
landfall in southern Florida
as a dangerous major hurri-
cane, and bring life-threat-
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[See Miami, A12] Sources: Mapzen, OpenStreetMap, NOAA Los Angeles Times [See Irma, A12]
By James F. Peltz
and Andrea Chang

Amazon.com is shopping
for a city to house a second
headquarters and mayors
across the country already
are lining up to bid on the
crown-jewel prize.
The online retailing gi-
ants new campus would de-
liver an economic boost well
beyond the $5 billion in con-
struction costs and 50,000
jobs anticipated at Ama-
zons HQ2. Not only would
Amazons direct spending at
its future second home be
the stuff of city planner
dreams, but theres also the
indirect benefit created by
spawning more business for
suppliers, nearby vendors
and others.
It would be particularly
rewarding for Los Angeles,
which has suffered an exo-
dus of corporate head-
quarters in the last two dec-
ades because of the areas
relatively high business
taxes and housing costs.
I welcome the opportu-
nity to compete for this re-
markable investment, and
the tens of thousands of
good-paying jobs it is sure to
bring with it, Los Angeles
Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a
statement Thursday.
L.A. is the perfect place
[See Amazon, A10]
Trumps decision
leaves Dreamers
unable to travel
ment purposes, and then re-
By Kate Linthicum
MEXICO CITY Last
month, California college
student Miriam Juan
stepped off a plane in Gua-
dalajara, Mexico, and
hugged her grandparents
for the first time in 17 years.
She had no words at first,
just smiles and tears.
Brought to the U.S. at age
Alessandro Di Meo European Pressphoto Agency 4, Juan was able to make the
POPE FRANCIS and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos are greeted by trip to Mexico thanks to a lit-
a child during a stop in Bogota. This is the nations first papal visit since 1986. tle-known perk of the De-
ferred Action for Childhood
A papal plea for reconciliation Arrivals program,
Obama-era initiative that
an
Pope Francis called for Colombians to promote forgiveness and leave behind the shielded 800,000 Dreamers
hatred and violence of half a century of armed conflict. WORLD, A4 from deportation.
Under DACA, young im-
migrants without legal stat-
Weather us could apply for permis-
Printed with soy inks on
Clouds, then sun. partially recycled paper.
sion to take short trips out of
L.A. Basin: 82/64. B8 the country for humanitari-
an, educational or employ-
turn legally to the U.S.
No longer.
President Trumps deci-
sion Tuesday to strip depor-
tation protections for DACA
recipients beginning in
March also restricts their
ability to travel. A Homeland
Security memorandum said
the department would stop
approving new applications
for travel permits, known as
advance parole. The agency
said it would honor applica-
tions that had been ap-
proved.
Those in favor of stricter
immigration enforcement
applauded the decision to
end the travel program,
which some have described
as a back door to citi-
zenship because it helped
tens of thousands of DACA
recipients get green cards in
[See DACA, A4]
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French side.
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says the island was discov-
ered by Christopher Colum-
bus in 1493 and controlled by
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Jonathan Falwell Associated Press
THOUSANDS more on St. Martin were left homeless in the aftermath of Hurri-
cane Irma, which struck the island as it made its way north Wednesday.
Dominican Republic
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pendence in 1844.
BROKEN pieces of a dock are recovered Wednesday
By Thursday evening,
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in shelters as Irma churned
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THE WORLD
Irans city of mullahs is evolving
Disillusionment with
Islamic Revolution
has eroded status of
Qoms exalted clergy.
By Shashank Bengali
and Ramin Mostaghim

QOM, Iran Before the

1979 Islamic Revolution, this
city was pious and sedate.
The late Iranian Ameri-
can poet Nader Naderpour
once listed as its main fea-
tures women with scarves
over their heads, men clad in
clerical robes, a single gold-
en dome, old storks in the
sky, one spiritless garden, a
handful of lonely trees.
Qom became the bed-
rock of Irans theocracy and
remains one of the countrys
holiest places home to
200,000 religious scholars, a
destination for Shiite Mus-
lim pilgrims and a center of
Islamic thought in a country
whose political system is
controlled by the clerical es-
tablishment.
But the city of about
1 million is no longer single-
mindedly religious, and its
clerics are not immune to
the anxieties bubbling be-
neath the surface of modern
Iran.
One sign of a more com-
plex side to Qom comes up-
on leaving the vast under- Photographs by Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times
ground parking structure QOM, the bedrock of Irans theocracy, still draws pilgrims and clerics. The city, however, is no longer single-mindedly religious.
beneath the golden-domed
shrine to Fatimah Ma-
sumeh, sister of the eighth
imam in Shiite Islam. The
exit leads to a multi-story
shopping arcade whose
brightly lighted shelves are
lined with Disney stuffed an-
imals, snacks and other not
particularly religious sou-
venirs.
Above ground, Sayed
Sadeq Mousavi, an elderly
cleric wearing a black tur-
ban, was blunt about his pol-
itics: At the beginning I was
a revolutionary, but I have
become disillusioned.
Mousavi, a cleric for 40
years, said the theocracy
had not fulfilled the promis-
es of the revolution led by Ay-
atollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
who spent time in Qom
studying religion. It had
failed to end corruption, en-
sure Irans oil wealth is
shared equitably and create EBRAHIM MAHMOUDI owns the decidedly secular Free Speech MOHAMMAD EBADI says he is a simple mullah, but people asso-
a more egalitarian society, Cafe in Qom. The city remains one of Irans holiest places. ciate me with the theocracy and put government blunders on him.
the cleric said.
Iran today is an economic holy month of Ramadan to highly stage-managed elec- they see me, they put all the prayer blared over the malls progressive way for a mullah
basket case, with most of the promote Shiite Islam and tions that ensure that only blunders of the government loudspeaker. He had named to talk.
80 million people struggling answer peoples religious candidates acceptable to on me. his shop the Free Speech Ca- Others too were adapting
with unemployment or stag- questions, he receives a cool the theocracy can win. A short walk from the fe, but its decidedly secular their faith.
nant wages while a tiny elite response. The blurred line between main religious sites, a for- vibe did not deter customers Marzieh Taheri, a woman
including family members People dont even an- clergy and government lorn shopping center looms in the city of mullahs. from the southern port city
of top clerics and politicians swer us when we say hello, the current president, Has- over the main road. The On a recent day, a mid- of Bushehr, said she and her
who enjoy control of state- Hagighat said. Its like san Rouhani, is an establish- Zamzam complex was built dle-aged mullah in a robe husband no longer sought
owned industries lives in theyre not on speaking ment cleric increasingly several years ago to capi- and turban came into the ca- out local clerics for guidance
extreme comfort. terms with us. creates confusion among talize on Qoms growth, but fe and struck up such an inti- on personal matters.
Mousavi said it was little Imam Khomeini said the people, Hagighat said. few retailers have moved in mate conversation that he But she noted that she
surprise that clerics had clergymen should lead a The government has not because the property owner left behind a pipe and to- was making her16th pilgrim-
slipped in popularity and at- simple life. If you drive a car, stringently enforced the was hit with corruption alle- bacco flakes as gifts, Mah- age to the shrine in the last
tendance at mosques across it should be a common car. mullahs rules banning sat- gations. Even the holy city moudi said. 12 years.
the Islamic Republic seems But some clergy and politi- ellite TV dishes and requir- isnt immune to shady deal- The man was considering It doesnt mean people
to dip lower and lower. cians live a luxurious life. ing women to cover their ings. sending his 21-year-old are less Muslim, Taheri
Clergymen have no role Even if they deserve it, in the hair because they need A coffee shop is one of the daughter to study in Ger- said.
in the hearts and minds of eyes of the people it is not votes, he said. only functioning businesses many, but had to grapple There is some disen-
people as they did 38 years compatible with austerity. Mohammad Ebadi, a in the building. A mural with leaving her on her own chantment with the system.
ago, he said. The leaders of Khomeinis successor as portly cleric in a white tur- of a European sidewalk in the dissolute West. But we still have Islam in our
the revolution overpromised supreme leader, Ayatollah ban, agreed that blending Is- cafe filled one wall and a He knew she would be hearts.
and under-delivered. Ali Khamenei, has the final lam and politics had tainted new, Italian-made espresso exposed to things, Mah-
Mostafa Hagighat, wear- say on political and religious peoples perception of the machine sat on a counter. moudi said. He told her: If shashank.bengali
ing a green robe and a salt- matters, but day-to-day gov- clergy. The owner, Ebrahim you have sex, it does not @latimes.com
and-pepper beard, said that erning is delegated to a civil- Im a simple mullah, but Mahmoudi, poured es- mean you are a sinner. Twitter: @SBengali
when he travels to towns and ian administration that is people associate me with the pressos, barely flinching I was surprised, the ca- Mostaghim is a special
villages during the annual popularly selected in theocracy, he said. When when the call to afternoon fe owner said. It was a very correspondent.

Israel targets military research site in Syria

Two soldiers are killed
in airstrike on facility
suspected of chemical
weapons production.
By Nabih Bulos
and Noga Tarnopolsky
BEIRUT Israeli
airstrikes on Syria have be-
come almost a matter of rou-
tine: Israel fires missiles on a
target; Syria condemns the
attack; Israel stays mum,
neither acknowledging nor
denying responsibility.
Little seemed outwardly
different Thursday, when
Syria accused Israel of
sneaking warplanes into
Lebanese airspace, then fir-
ing missiles at a military out-
post near the town of Masyaf
in western Syria.
The choice of target, how-
ever, which included a mili-
tary scientific research cen-
ter, made the attack any-
thing but routine, analysts
said.
Its another level of inter-
fering, said Maj. Gen.
Yaakov Amidror, a former
national security advisor to
Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu, according
to the transcript of a confer-
ence call with journalists
Thursday.
Its the first time that the
target which was attacked is
a formal Syrian facility not
just a warehouse but the cen-
ter of research and devel-
opment, he added.
He also said it was prob-
ably responsible for produc-
ing chemical weapons and
many other weapons sys-
tems, including rockets and
missiles.
The attack, which oc-
curred at 2:42 a.m., according
to a statement from the Syr-
ian armys general com-
mand, killed two soldiers and
caused material damage to
the site.
Warning of dangerous
repercussions of such hostile
acts on the security and sta-
bility of the region, the
statement said the Israeli at-
tack had been a desperate
attempt to raise the morale
of Islamic State fighters.
Damascus has long ac-
cused its regional and inter-
national enemies, including
Israel, of supporting mili-
tants in the country. Israel
has, at the least, offered med-
ical assistance and nonlethal
aid to Syrian rebels.
The Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, a Britain-
based monitoring group that
supports the opposition
against Syrian President
Bashar Assad, said that the
Israeli barrage had struck a
military base, a store for me-
dium- and short-range mis-
siles and a scientific research
center.
It put the casualty toll at
seven.
Once again, Israeli did not
comment on the strike,
maintaining its public posi-
tion of neutrality in the civil
war raging across Syria.
Yet Amos Yadlin, former
head of Israels military intel-
ligence, tweeted that the
strike was not routine.
He claimed that the
Masyaf site was a center for
development and manufac-
ture of precision missiles
which will have a significant
role in the next round of con-
flict, and that the factory
there produced chemical
weapons as well as barrel
bombs, primitive explosives
the government has used
against its rebel adversaries.
Damascus has been ac-
cused of deploying chemical
weapons against the opposi-
tion. A U.N. report on
Wednesday blamed the
Syrian government for a sa-
rin attack in April on the
northern town of Khan
Sheikhoun that killed doz-
ens of civilians.
Israeli officials, including
Netanyahu, have acknowl-
edged strikes in Syria in the
past; they say such action is
aimed at preventing arms
transfers to Hezbollah, the
Lebanese Shiite Muslim mili-
tant faction that is Israels
nemesis. The group is now a
vital battlefield ally of Assad.
Hezbollahs growing role
in Syria has raised alarm in
Israel. It fears that Hezbol-
lahs presence in Syria has
given the group access to ad-
vanced weapons from Iran as
well as Russia, Assads top
international backer.
Israel has been preparing
itself for another round of
war with Hezbollah. This
week, the Israeli army is con-
ducting its largest drill in
more than a decade. It will in-
clude, according to the Isra-
eli newspaper Haaretz, a sce-
nario of instant escalation, in
which Israeli units defend
against multiple terrorist
infiltrations in the north.
But the strike also comes
as a delicate cease-fire has
taken hold between Damas-
cus and rebels operating in
southern Syria. The agree-
ment, brokered by the U.S.,
Russia and Jordan, was re-
jected by Israel because it did
not stipulate the removal of
Hezbollah and Iranian-
backed militias from Syria.
The attack, wrote Amos
Harel, Haaretzs military and
defense analyst, may be in-
terpreted as an Israeli signal
of sorts to the world powers:
You still need to take our se-
curity interests in[to] ac-
count.
Were capable of disrupt-
ing the process of a future
settlement in Syria if you in-
sist on leaving us out of the
picture, he said.
Special correspondents
Bulos and Tarnopolsky
reported from Beirut and
Jerusalem, respectively.
A4 F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
MIRIAM JUAN had hoped to launch a study abroad program at Cal Poly Pomona for fellow Dreamers.
The world changed
for young immigrants
[DACA, from A1]
recent years.
Migrants applying for le-
gal permanent residence
through sponsorship by a
U.S. citizen family member
or an employer typically
get green cards quickly as
long as they have entered
the country lawfully or
through advance parole.
On the other hand, mi-
grants who crossed the bor-
der illegally and have not re-
entered the U.S. via parole
must leave the country and
apply for a green card from a
U.S. Consulate abroad, a
process that can take years.
An estimated 40,000
DACA recipients have used
advance parole to get green
cards since the program was
created in 2012, said Claire
Nicholson, a spokeswoman
for U.S. Citizenship and Im-
migration Services.
Its extremely trou-
bling, said Ira Mehlman, a
spokesman for the Federa-
tion for American Immigra-
tion Reform, which seeks to
reduce levels of immigra-
tion. President Obama said
DACA would in no way lead
FOR THE RECORD
Daher Capital: In the
Sept. 6 Business section, an
article about investment
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to people getting amnesty or
citizenship, and it turned
out not to be accurate.
Immigration advocates
acknowledge the benefits of
advance parole; in recent
years some groups have
coached Dreamers on how
to time green card applica-
tions with advance parole
trips. Still, many advocates
insist the programs biggest
benefit was not potential ac-
cess to legal status but the
chance for tens of thousands
of Dreamers to reconnect
with their homeland.
I essentially got to meet
my home, meet my grand-
parents and aunts and un-
cles and cousins and get to
know my culture and my tra-
ditions, said Juan, 21, a
math major at Cal Poly Po-
mona, who spent eight days
last month eating her grand-
mothers homemade tor-
tillas, learning about her in-
digenous heritage and
strolling the lush green corn
fields of her native village.
Juan returned to Califor-
nia a few weeks ago, deter-
mined to launch a study
abroad program on her cam-
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pus that would enable other
Dreamers to travel with ad-
vance parole.
The U.S. has now robbed
us of that, she said.
Juan traveled with the
California-Mexico Studies
Center, a nonprofit that has
arranged for about 160
DACA students to visit
Mexico over the last several
years. Along with allotted
time for family visits, the
trips featured meetings with
Mexican officials and semi-
nars on the countrys history
and politics.
The group canceled an-
other trip to Mexico planned
for December after this
weeks announcement that
protections would be
stripped from recipients in
six months. The administra-
tion has asked Congress to
write a law during that pe-
riod to resolve the issue.
The world changed asking for money on the
yesterday for this popula-
tion of students, said Ar-
mando Vazquez-Ramos, co-
ordinator of the California-
Mexico Project and a Chi-
cano studies professor at Cal
State Long Beach.
For immigrants brought
to the U.S., returning to the
country of their birth can be
important, he said.
Some of them were
brought to the U.S. when
they were in diapers and re-
member nothing of their
countries, he said. They
dream of connecting with
their relatives and recover-
ing their identities.
Although the chance to
visit home countries was
happy for many, others
found it difficult. Jose Platas
Arroyo, a computer science
major at Cal State Domin-
guez Hills, came to the U.S.
from Mexico at age 11. He
spoke only Spanish then and
felt like an outsider. He felt
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back to Mexico last month
with advance parole. People
told him he spoke Spanish
with an American accent.
At least I was able to see
my family once again after 14
years, but it was a culture
shock, he said. People
heard me talking and looked
at me funny. I felt like an out-
cast in my own country.
For some who had the
chance to travel home, the
experience reaffirmed that
their lives and identities are
now centered in the U.S.
Ricardo Aca, a Dreamer
from New York, visited his
home state of Puebla, Mexi-
co, in January. He was
thrilled to reunite with his
younger brother, who was 4
when Aca and his parents
said goodbye and crossed
the border. But he was
struck by the poverty that
abounded, and the children
streets.
Aca decided to cut short
his trip to Mexico to make
sure he was home before
Trumps Jan. 20 inaugura-
tion. We didnt know when
he would take action, said
Aca, who gained national
prominence last year when
he starred in a video high-
lighting his job as a server at
a sushi restaurant in a
Trump condo building in
Manhattan.
Although the experience
in Mexico was powerful, he
felt glad to come home to
New York City. Ive come to
love the U.S. like I love my
country, he said.
Before he left, his grand-
mother took him aside.
Im glad that you came
back, she said. She said she
wasnt sure shed be around
the next time Aca came back
to Mexico.
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Pope Francis urged young
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take the lead in promoting
forgiveness after half a cen-
tury of conflict, and he de-
manded that the ruling class
address the entrenched in-
equalities that sparked Lat-
in Americas longest-run-
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There has been too
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Francis told a crowd at Bo-
gotas presidential palace
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Francis received a rau-
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main Plaza Bolivar, where
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In the first major speech
of his trip, Francis appealed
to President Juan Manuel
Santos and Colombias po-
litical, cultural and econo-
mic elite to avoid the temp-
tation to seek vengeance as
the country emerges from
the conflict. Instead, he said
they should commit them-
selves to heal wounds, build
bridges, strengthen re-
lationships and support one
another.
One year after the gov-
ernment signed a peace ac-
cord with rebels of the Revo-
lutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, or FARC, the
guns have fallen silent and
7,000 rebels are transitioning
back to civilian life. But Co-
lombians remain strongly
divided over the accord, with
conservative opponents see-
ing it as too generous to the
guerrillas who were behind
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Trump son details Russian meeting
Donald Trump Jr. tells
senators his intention
was to assess Clintons
fitness for office.
By David S. Cloud
WASHINGTON Don-
ald Trump Jr. agreed to
meet during the campaign
last year with a Russian law-
yer who had promised to
provide damaging informa-
tion on Hillary Clinton be-
cause he hoped to assess her
fitness for office, the presi-
dents eldest son told Senate
investigators Thursday.
Moscow lawyer Natalia
Veselnitskaya and three as-
sociates with links to Russia
went to an office in Trump
Tower in Manhattan for the
June 9, 2016, meeting with
Donald Trumps top lieuten-
ants, including his cam-
paign chairman, Paul Mana-
fort, his son-in-law, Jared
Kushner, and son Donald Jr.
To the extent they had
information concerning the
fitness, character or qualifi-
cations of a presidential can-
didate, I believed that I
should at least hear them
out, Trump Jr. said in a
statement about his meet-
ing with the Russians.
Depending on what, if
any, information they had, I
could then consult with
counsel to make an informed
decision as to whether to
give it further consider-
ation, he added.
Trump Jr.s closed-door
testimony before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, one of
the four congressional pan-
els investigating the Trump
campaigns dealings with
Russia, provided the most
detailed account yet of the
meeting.
It also is a focus of special
counsel Robert S. Mueller
IIIs separate criminal inves-
tigation of alleged links be-
THE NATION
tween Russian government
authorities and several
members of Trumps family,
as well as current and former
aides.
Trump Jr. sought to dis-
pel speculation Thursday
that President Trump knew
about the meeting at the
time. He told the panel he
had not informed his father,
then the expected Republi-
can nominee, about it, ac-
cording to a person familiar
with his testimony.
Investigators see the
Trump Tower meeting as
significant because it was
specifically offered to
Trump Jr. as part of an effort
by Moscow to help his father
win the White House, and
because attendees have pro-
vided varying accounts of
what occurred.
They also are trying to
understand what Trump
knew about the Russian of-
fer. After Trump Jr. was first
promised damaging infor-
mation, his father promised
to give a major speech to dis-
cuss all the things that have
taken place with the Clin-
tons.
The Trump Tower meet-
ing took place five days be-
fore news broke that hackers
linked to the Russian gov-
ernment had stolen thou-
sands of emails from com-
puters at the Democratic
National Committee. The
emails began appearing on
WikiLeaks in July.
Rinat Akhmetshin, a
Russian-born lobbyist who
attended the meeting, testi-
fied last month before a
grand jury convened by
Mueller to investigate Rus-
sian interference in the 2016
election, according to a per-
son familiar with the matter.
Trump Jr., a business-
man, agreed to appear be-
fore the Judiciary Commit-
tee after the chairman, Sen.
Charles E. Grassley (R-
Iowa), had subpoenaed him
and Manafort.
DONALD TRUMP JR. told investigators Thursday that he ended his 2016 meet-
ing with a Moscow lawyer when she shifted the discussion to the Magnitsky Act.
The subpoenas were
withdrawn after both agreed
to testify in private. Grassley
said they both eventually
would be questioned by
senators in a public hearing.
Muellers office has ap-
proached the White House
about interviewing staff
members who helped write
Trump Jr.s first public
statements after news of the
2016 meeting emerged two
months ago, CNN reported.
He initially said he and
Veselnitskaya had primari-
ly discussed a program
about the adoption of Rus-
sian children.
That was an oblique ref-
erence to the Magnitsky Act,
a U.S. law enacted in 2012
that imposed financial sanc-
tions on Russian officials
and businessmen, including
one of Veselnitskayas cli-
ents. Moscow responded to
the sanctions by banning
American adoption of Rus-
sian children.
But Trump Jr. later re-
leased emails that he agreed
to the meeting in hopes of re-
ceiving damaging informa-
tion about Clinton, then the
expected Democratic nomi-
nee.
The emails show he was
Carolyn Kaster Associated Press
contacted by Rod Gold-
stone, a former business as-
sociate, who described
Veselnitskaya as a Russian
government attorney who
had official documents and
information that would in-
criminate Clinton and
would be very useful to your
father.
Her information was
part of Russia and its
governments support for
Mr. Trump, Goldstone told
Trump Jr.
In his statement Thurs-
day, Trump Jr. said he was
skeptical of Goldstones in-
formation, since he had
only known Rob as a some-
what colorful music promot-
er who had worked with pop
stars such as Michael Jack-
son.
He added: Nonetheless I
thought at the time I should
listen to what Rob and his
colleagues had to say.
Goldstone had worked
with Trump Jr. on the
Trump-owned Miss Uni-
verse pageant in Moscow in
2013. He attended the June
2016 meeting along with
Irakly Ike Kaveladze, a
Russian-born business exe-
cutive. Both work for a bil-
lionaire Moscow developer
with close ties to the Krem-
lin.
Trump Jr. said Veselnit-
skaya opened the meeting
speaking very generally
about individuals con-
nected to Russia supporting
or funding Clinton. It was
quite difficult for me to
understand what she was
saying or why, he added.
She produced no incrimi-
nating information about
Clinton, Trump Jr. said, and
ended in 20 or 30 minutes
when the Russian shifted
the discussion to the Mag-
nitsky Act, a subject that
Trump Jr. said he knew
nothing about.
It was clear to me that
her real purpose in asking
for the meeting all along was
to discuss Russian adoption
and the Magnitsky Act, he
said.
Trump Jr. said he pro-
ceeded to quickly and po-
litely end the meeting by
telling her that because my
father was a private citizen
there did not seem to be any
point to having this discus-
sion, saying he gave it no
further thought.
I did not collude with
any foreign government and
do not know of anyone who
did, he said.
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Why Trump
worked with
Democrats
[Analysis, from A1]
derided as Crying Chuck,
was a sign from the presi-
dent unseen in the last seven
months. Trump had worked
solely with Republicans on
measures meant to satisfy a
narrow, conservative base.
But he suddenly seemed in-
tent on pursuing whatever
path allowed him to be seen
as the successful deal-maker
hed vowed to be a promise
he has not been able to
achieve as his priorities have
stalled on GOP-controlled
Capitol Hill.
Trump told reporters at
the White House that he
could foresee working in bi-
partisan fashion on a host of
issues. I think we will have a
different relationship than
weve been watching over
the last number of years. I
hope so. I think thats a great
thing for our country. And I
think thats what the people
of the United States want to
see. They want to see some
dialogue. They want to see
coming together, he said.
Still, the move reflected
less a dawning relationship
with the other party by a
suddenly unfettered and in-
dependent president than a
warning to Republicans to
corral warring factions, ac-
cording to current and past
Trump advisors.
They said Trump was ex-
pressing his anger at fellow
Republicans, whom he
blames for his inability to
make good on election
pledges such as repealing
and replacing the Affordable
Care Act. The absence of big
achievements has contrib-
uted to the presidents lag-
ging popularity, which in
turn has lessened his control
over his quarrelsome party.
Barry Bennett, a former
Trump strategist, said his
dalliance with Schumer and
Pelosi did not necessarily
suggest a long-term rela-
tionship, but was meant as
a shot across the bow for
Republicans in Congress.
Were seeing the prag-
matic, transactional Presi-
dent Trump, Bennett said.
You know, Republicans can
control everything if they
choose to, but if they cant
get along and cant get it
done, they shouldnt be sur-
prised another solution
comes up.
Nonetheless, Trumps
moves came at much risk:
alienating his own partys
congressional leaders, re-
newing concerns among
conservatives over his loy-
alty to their goals and by
increasing Democrats lev-
erage going into fall negotia-
tions on a range of topics
diminishing GOP power.
Some in the GOP sought
to put the best face on
Trumps move, saying it re-
flected a desire to move
ahead on topics important
to both them and the White
House, chiefly tax reform.
Others remained defiantly
angry that the president had
undercut party leaders in-
cluding House Speaker Paul
D. Ryan (R-Wis.).
Still others blamed Ryan
and other GOP leaders for
Trumps move. Rep. Mark
Walker of North Carolina,
chairman of the conserva-
tive Republican Study
Group, sent a tart letter to
Ryan that called the Trump
deal irresponsible. Worse
yet is attaching the debt lim-
it to legislation that contin-
ues the status quo or even
worsens the trajectory of
spending, Walker wrote.
It was not clear whether
Trumps alliance with
Democrats would survive
the week, much less the
months required to estab-
lish a true change of direc-
tion and yield results.
Still, the shift was in
keeping with Trumps cam-
paign persona: that of a Re-
publican with staunchly
conservative views on some
matters like securing the
SENATE AND HOUSE Minority Leaders Charles E. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi meet with Dreamers
holding a fast on Capitol Hill to protest President Trumps decision to end the program that protects them.
border, but lacking the ideol-
ogy on economic and cultur-
al issues that has driven Re-
publicans on Capitol Hill.
He is a pragmatist. He
wants to get things done,
said one confidant, who
spoke on the condition of
anonymity to preserve rela-
tions with the White House.
If that means reaching
across the aisle to get things
done, I think hes very willing
to do that.
The alliance has obvious
limitations; the Democratic
deal sanctioned by Trump
represents one of only a few
matters on which the two
sides may find agreement.
And, of course, Demo-
crats want to replace Trump
in 2020. Sam Nunberg, a for-
mer Trump strategist, said
that the Democratic leaders
had played the president.
Pelosi and Schumer will
work hand-in-hand with the
president on one action
item: impeaching him, he
said. That is it.
Pelosi, of San Francisco,
was unsure of the extent to
which the president was pre-
pared to work with her party.
You never know. Lets
hope this is a sign of some-
thing to come, she said.
If so, signs were uneven:
Trumps reelection cam-
paign released an ad Thurs- bers of Congress, if they
day that said career politi- could not deliver on Trumps
cians Schumer and Pel- demands, should get out of
osiwere trying to stop him. the way and let somebody
While Trumps irritation else take their job.
at congressional Republi- Later that day, Trump
cans has been visible for seemed to take the pressure
months, he has ignored his to act quickly off Congress,
own responsibility for the tweeting that if the matter
failures to date as the osten- was not fixed in six months
sible leader of a party that he would revisit it and po-
often appears rudderless. tentially reinstate the DACA
Much like on health in- program despite his cam-
surance, his head-snapping paign pledge to get rid of it.
back-and-forth on Tuesday On Wednesday, on a
over the program for young flight to North Dakota for a
immigrants known as De- rally, Trump said he wanted
ferred Action for Childhood good border security and a
Arrivals, or DACA, was a DACA program where
confusing template for con- everybody is happy and now
gressional Republicans they dont have to worry
seeking to know his desires. about it anymore ignor-
He first tweeted a de- ing substantial anti-DACA
mand that Congress come sentiment in his party.
up with a fix for DACA bene- To have that uncertainty
ficiaries, known as Dream- followed by a quick deal with
ers. Then the White House Democrats announced in
demanded a comprehensive the Oval Office in front of
immigration overhaul, a Ryan, Senate Majority
nearly impossible task given Leader Mitch McConnell
Trumps six-month dead- (R-Ky.) and Treasury Secre-
line. tary Steven T. Mnuchin, all
No details were forth- of whom opposed it fur-
coming; White House Press ther unnerved Republicans.
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Trumps aides were left in
Sanders would only say that the familiar position of craft-
Congress needs to provide ing an after-the-fact expla-
more than just a one-piece nation for the presidents
fix to replace the Obama- acts, trying to calm fellow
era program. She said mem- Republicans who will in
Jose Luis Magana Associated Press
large part determine his
chances of success.
This clears out the next
90 days for us to focus on im-
portant things, Mnuchin
told Fox Business Networks
Maria Bartiromo. So we
have the funding for Harvey;
were focused on tax reform.
Thats going to be the big pri-
ority for the next 90 days so
that we can have a bill
passed for the president to
sign.
Mick Mulvaney, Trumps
budget director, offered a ra-
tionale that glided past the
rancor and shock felt by
many of his former GOP
House colleagues toward
Trump, blaming Congress
unpopular party leaders.
Is he annoyed at Repub-
lican leadership? Yeah, I
think he probably is, he told
Fox Business Networks Neil
Cavuto. To the extent that
the president was annoyed
by that is simply reflecting
many of the people of this
country.
cathleen.decker
@latimes.com
lisa.mascaro@latimes.com
noah.bierman
@latimes.com
Times staff writer Brian
Bennett contributed to this
report from Washington.

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Cities
prepare
Amazon
pitches
[Amazon, from A1]
for a company like Amazon
to find talented workers, and
an environment that nur-
tures growth and innova-
tion, Garcetti said.
Amazon launched the
search for its second North
American base because its
current headquarters,
which covers 33 buildings in
greater Seattle, is brimming
with 40,000 workers follow-
ing the companys remarka-
ble growth that lifted its
sales to $136 billion last year.
Many mayors wasted no
time making their pitches,
signaling that a fierce battle
among many of the nations
largest metropolitan areas
may be looming.
Were all abuzz this
morning about Amazons
announcement, said St.
Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson,
according to the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. She said city
officials were putting to-
gether a team right now to
make a very competitive
proposal.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Pe-
duto simply tweeted, On it,
with a link to Amazons pro-
posal-submission page.
Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel has spoken to Be-
zos several times about
bringing HQ2 to the Second
City, according to the Chi-
cago Sun-Times.
Chicagos unmatched
workforce, world-class uni-
versities and unparalleled
access to destinations
throughout the world make
it the perfect headquarters
location for companies large
and small. Thats also why
Chicago has led the nation in
corporate relocations for the
last four years, mayoral
spokesman Grant Klinzman
said in an email to the news-
paper.
And Nashville Mayor
Megan Barry told the Ten-
nessean that she was confi-
dent that our socially prog-
ressive, pro-business cli-
mate, talented workforce,
and overall great quality of
life offers the type of environ-
ment that they are looking
for.
Amazon expects the win-
ning city to grant lucrative
perks. In its request for pro-
posal to prospective bid-
ders, it asks them to identify
state and local incentives
available, including tax
credits and utility incen-
tives. The initial cost [of the
project] and ongoing cost of
doing business are critical
decision drivers in which
area would be selected, Am-
azon said.
Regardless, if Im the
mayor and the governor, Im
all over this opportunity like
a bear on honey, said Lloyd
Greif, head of the Los Ange-
les investment bank Greif &
CONSTRUCTION on three glass-covered domes in April, called Amazon Spheres, is part of an expansion of Amazons campus in Seattle.
AMAZONS new headquarters is expected to produce 50,000 well-paying jobs.
Above, the e-commerce giants customer fulfillment center in San Bernardino.
Co. and a former chair of the
Los Angeles County Econo-
mic Development Corp.
This is a huge opportu-
nity for the city of Los Ange-
les, Greif said. In terms of
the importance to the city, I
think the Olympics [in 2028]
would pale against this.
We expect HQ2 to be a
full equal to our Seattle
headquarters, Amazon
Chief Executive Jeff Bezos
said in a statement Thurs-
day. Amazon HQ2 will bring
billions of dollars in up-front
and ongoing investments,
and tens of thousands of
high-paying jobs.
Amazon said it would
give priority to areas with
more than 1 million people
that are within 45 minutes of
an international airport.
In addition, a highly ed-
ucated labor pool is critical
and a strong university sys-
tem is required in the area,
Amazon said.
We want to invest in a
community where our em-
ployees will enjoy living, rec-
reational opportunities,
educational opportunities,
and an overall high quality of
life, the company added.
Amazons sales have
doubled in the last four years
and it employs about 380,000
people, including thousands
at nine fulfillment centers in
California. This year it an-
nounced plans to build two
centers, in Redlands and in
Eastvale, near Riverside.
The company also has a
film and television produc-
tion arm, Amazon Studios,
based in Santa Monica.
The TV division of the
studio shoots many of its
shows in the Los Angeles re-
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
gion, including Transpar-
ent, Bosch and The Last
Tycoon.
Amazon Studios has be-
come a major Hollywood
player in just a few years.
The studio produced last
years Academy Award-win-
ning Manchester by the
Sea and has been success-
ful in luring prestige talent,
including Woody Allen,
Matthew Weiner and Rich-
ard Linklater, to create origi-
nal movies and TV series.
Los Angeles and Orange
counties might appear to be
viable candidates: They
have a large available work-
force, nearby airports,
nearby universities and ac-
cess to the West Coast ports,
which are among the busiest
in the nation.
The biggest advantage
L.A. has is the concentration
of talent, said Kevin Klow-
den, executive director of the
Milken Institutes California
Center and a managing
economist at the Institute.
L.A. is a center for standard
media and entertainment
but also for newer media and
online content.
Still, L.A.s high housing
costs might work against it.
Rent and home prices
have soared in recent years
in the region, putting a
strain on family budgets and
the ability to take out a
mortgage, although Ama-
zon noted that employment
at its second headquarters
would be high-paying jobs.
Too expensive it
doesnt solve anything, said
Michael Pachter, an analyst
at Wedbush Securities in
Los Angeles. I personally
think this is more about
housing than anything else.
So, Riverside makes more
sense than L.A. Or Bakers-
field. Seattle, according to the Se-
But Chris Thornberg,
founding partner of Beacon
Economics, said L.A.s high
housing costs are unlikely to
deter Amazon because
many of its employees are
paid well and the company
already has experience in
Seattle, also one of the coun-
trys most expensive cities.
They pay a lot of money,
Thornberg said. They are
the reasons home prices go
up. They are the cause, not
the effect.
Thornberg said there is a
simpler reason Los Angeles
is unlikely to land the Seattle
firm it already has a head-
quarters on the West Coast.
Bezos is looking to take
over the world, he said. My
guess is he is going to aim for
the East Coast.
Elaine Thompson Associated Press
Gov. Jerry Browns Office
of Business and Economic
Development, known as
GO-Biz, is aware of the Ama-
zon headquarters proposal,
Deputy Director Sid
Voorakkara said.
It is fair to say we work
closely with the city on all
business opportunities from
attraction, expansion and
retention, he said.
The desire for a second
headquarters might simply
reflect Amazons relentless
growth.
Late last month, Amazon
completed its $13.7-billion
purchase of Whole Foods
Market Inc., a chain of 470
grocery stores that focus on
organic and natural foods.
The scope of Amazons
search to house 50,000 work-
ers is considered staggering
in the commercial real es-
tate industry. Amazon has
more than 8 million square
feet in multiple buildings in
attle Times, and is still grow-
ing fast. It would presum-
ably require multiple build-
ings in Southern California
as well. Downtown L.A.s
U.S. Bank Tower, for exam-
ple, one of the tallest office
buildings in the West, con-
tains 1.4 million square feet
and is about 80% leased.
Its tough to get your
head around the magnitude
of the scale of this opportu-
nity, said real estate broker
Nico Vilgiate of Colliers
International.
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andrea.chang@latimes.com
Times staff writers Andrew
Khouri, David Ng, Patrick
McGreevy and Roger
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Campus sexual assault rules to be reviewed

Education chief calls
Obama-era guidelines
unfair. Womens
groups are outraged.
By Lauren Rosenblatt,
Joy Resmovits
and Teresa Watanabe
WASHINGTON Edu-
cation Secretary Betsy De-
Vos announced a formal re-
view Thursday of Obama-
era guidelines that spurred
universities to more aggres-
sively investigate campus
sexual assaults a policy
she criticized as unfair and
implementation of their re-
sults. This insures that stu-
dents are not charged by
school-based tribunals on
the basis of hearsay or in-
complete evidence, DeVos
said.
As DeVos delivered her
speech, a group of about 30
protesters outside the build-
ing chanted Shame on you
and Stop supporting rap-
ists.
I have concerns that
shes even talking about re-
scinding [the guidance]. It
makes rapists and assault-
ers feel safer, said Amy
Crummie, a sophomore at
George Mason.
Womens groups were
quick to condemn the
speech.
It will discourage
schools from taking steps to
comply with the law just at
the moment when they are
finally working to get it
right, Fatima Goss Graves,
president of the National
Womens Law Center, said in
a statement. And it sends a
frightening message to all
students: your government
does not have your back if
your rights are violated.
Annie Clark, an advocate
with the End Rape on Cam-
pus national organization,
denounced the DeVos
speech and said sexual as-
sault survivor groups were
not invited to attend. She
added that it was even more
troubling because it came
from the administration of
President Trump, who was
accused by several women of
sexual misconduct before he
was elected.
Cindy Garrett, co-presi-
dent of Families Advocating
for Campus Equality, which
helps students who have
been accused of sexual as-
sault and their families, said
the groups message board
was filled with hopeful re-
marks during DeVos
speech. She read comments
like progress is being
made, my heart smiles
and this brought me to
tears.
Garrett, a California at-
torney, said she was confi-
dent DeVos could both pro-
tect victims and provide a
fair process.
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@latimes.com
joy.resmovits@latimes.com
teresa.watanabe
@latimes.com

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A12 F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
Florida peril: Leave. Get out.
[Irma, from A1]
Miami Beach, called Irma a
nuclear hurricane. Irmas
leading edge was expected
to reach Florida as soon as
Saturday, and Gov. Rick
Scott spoke of a cata-
strophic storm that our
state has never seen.
The hurricane has left a
string of small, devastated
Caribbean islands counting
their dead and struggling to
restore links to the outside
world. Chaotic conditions
hampered efforts to compile
a fatality toll, which officials
said reached at least 13 and
would probably grow.
Three people died in the
U.S. Virgin Islands and three
more in Puerto Rico, their
respective governors said,
and the Netherlands govern-
ment confirmed a fatality in
St. Maarten, the shattered
Dutch side of the island it
shares with St. Martin, a
French territory. French of-
ficials, however, revised
downward from eight to four
the number of people con-
firmed dead on the French
side.
As the storm passed
Puerto Rico, it dealt the U.S.
territory what was in meteo-
rological terms a glancing
blow, but one that landed
like a stunning punch, exac-
erbated by already faltering
infrastructure. The gover-
nor, Ricardo Rossello, re-
ported that a million people
were left without power, and
the National Weather Serv-
ice in San Juan warned of
flash-flooding danger from
swollen rivers.
Irmas howling winds
weakened slightly to175 mph
as the eye passed to the
north of the Dominican Re-
public and Haiti. But even a
sideswipe by such a intense
storm carried devastating
power. Hispaniola, the is-
land the two countries
share, was lashed by gales
and torrential rains.
In the north of Haiti,
where a hurricane last year
killed some 900 people,
many learned of government
evacuation orders only from
neighbors or relatives.
Frightened people in the
countrys north cut
Hunkering down in Miami
[Miami, from A1]
Carolyn Haynes isnt worry-
ing about monkeys. She is
worrying about money.
Haynes was ready to bolt
town with her kids and take
refuge with family in Geor-
gia, but she cant afford to
get out. Her car was totaled
in an accident, and Haynes
does not have the cash to fix
it. So her family is stuck,
along with so many others in
Miami who, hearing official
advice to take a trip out of
town or hole up in a hotel,
have a ready answer:
Wouldnt that be nice?
I want to leave, said
Haynes, as she loaded bun-
dles of bags from a dollar
store into a well-worn car
she borrowed from her sis-
ter. It is what it is. We lived
through [Hurricane] An-
drew. We can wait this one
out.
Few things put in stark
relief the two very different
Miamis that exist just miles
from each other as does a
colossal hurricane bearing
down on southern Florida.
In both, there was deep anxi-
ety about the approaching
storm. But thats where the
similarities ended.
I hear from people who
would love to evacuate but
they cant, said Nancy
Metayer, an organizer with
the New Florida Majority,
which is gathering volun-
teers to help low-income
neighborhoods in what is ex-
pected to be a troubled after-
math to the storm.
For some, it is too close
to the beginning of the
month. They just paid their
rent. They dont have the
money to get out, she said.
Worse, many cant afford the
supplies they need to safely
stay put.
At the Little Haiti Hard-
ware Store, owner Jean
Rameau awaited news
about how his family back in
Haiti had weathered Irmas
rampage there, while also
trying to help nearby resi-
dents stock up on hurricane
supplies. Hed just given
away his 175th sheet of ply-
wood.
We know the people who
need our help, said Scattini
Rameau, his nephew, sport-
SS
FRITZ DRINKS, whose family back in Haiti endured Hurricane Irma, prepares for the storm in Miamis Little Haiti neighborhood.
branches from trees to try to
shore up roofs, said Mishelle
Mitchell of the humanitari-
an group World Vision, who
was in the capital, Port-au-
Prince.
In South Florida, home
to some 6 million people,
flight from the mighty storm
that was bearing down
turned chaotic at times, with
the states two main south-
north arteries clogged with
traffic and gasoline in short
supply. Florida Highway Pa-
trol troopers were trying to
keep vehicles moving, tow-
ing disabled cars left by the
roadside and escorting fuel
trucks.
Florida lore is full of die-
hards who ride out hurri-
GENARO DACOSTA of Miami Beach couldnt find a safe place that would take his wild animal a pet
marmoset. So he loaded sandbags Thursday as he and others prepared to stay put despite an evacuation order.
ing a Make America Great
Again cap as he rang up
sales for worried customers.
For nearly everyone, it
was the calm before the
storm which wasnt ex-
pected to hit until this week-
end.
Outside a bodega in Lib-
erty City, Matthew Marshall
was working calmly over a
generator that had seen bet-
ter days. Look out for the
black smoke, he warned as
the machine belched to life.
Marshall pointed out all
the luxury hotels in Miami
Beach, now being evacuat-
ed, whose high-tech genera-
tors would sit unused. They
can afford those nice genera-
tors, but now they dont need
them, he said. We need
them, but cant afford
them.
The scene in the Publix
grocery store in Miami
Beach was also decidedly
chill. Its eclectic mix of hip-
ster, fashionista and immi-
grant customers waited pa-
tiently at checkout lines, and
there was no sign of panic.
Along the unusually bar-
HURRICANE IRMA
canes, and defying a storms
fury is romanticized in films
like the 1948 noir classic Key
Largo. But Scott, in a tele-
vised public briefing,
pleaded with any holdouts
in evacuation zones, espe-
cially in the Florida Keys, to
obey orders to depart.
Leave. Get out, the gov-
ernor said, addressing those
who had been told to go. We
cant save you once the
storm starts.
The Keys, where a man-
datory evacuation order was
in place, were emptying,
with 31,000 people having de-
parted as of Thursday morn-
ing, Scott said. An advisory
evacuation was in place in
Miami-Dade, the states
ren beach, workers were
towing lifeguard stations
back into the brush, in hopes
they wouldnt float away
when the storm hit.
Kerleen Collins and a
friend, both of whom live
downtown, sat on the sand,
reading and napping in the
sunshine under a rainbow
umbrella.
We never get to come
here at this time, said
Collins, 35. Usually we are at
work. Work was canceled to
give employees a chance to
prepare for the hurricane.
Not far away, volunteers
and city workers sweated
profusely as they shoveled
sand into white bags.
Andrea Ratkovic, whose
vacation from Oklahoma
was being cut short, had
been taking one last 6-mile
run before decamping with
the rest of the tourist mas-
ses. She saw the sandbag op-
eration and decided to stop
and lend a hand.
Her trip, with a friend,
was supposed to take them
to Barbados. They canceled
that and diverted to Miami
most populous county, and
the order was mandatory in
low-lying areas.
The expanded evacua-
tion zone, now encompass-
ing about 700,000 people,
covers downtown Miami and
other parts of the city, plus
southern parts of Miami-
Dade County.
It also included Home-
stead, Coral Gables, South
Miami, Miami Shores and
North Miami Beach, author-
ities said.
In Miami Beach, jogger
Andrea Ratkovic, 51, was
preparing to head home to
Oklahoma after the storm
scrapped a planned trip to
Barbados. First, though, she
took a break from her run to
Beach, hoping for the best.
Now they were just going to
head home.
I think we are getting out
by the skin of our teeth,
Ratkovic said.
Charlie Garcia was wait-
ing in line to load up sand-
bags in his car. He knew how
much damage a hurricane
can do: He was 10 when his
family decided not to evacu-
ate for powerful Hurricane
Andrew in 1992. Their house
was leveled.
It was total devas-
tation, he said. Never-
theless, Garcia was again
staying put this time.
This is my home, man,
he said. Where else am I go-
ing to go? Everywhere is go-
ing to get hit.
He figured the high-rise
where he now lives, across
the street from the water, is
as safe as anywhere else in
South Florida. His building
asked residents to collect
sandbags, so that is what he
was doing.
Garcia had just gotten
back from the Florida Keys,
where he has another home
help a sandbag-filling crew.
She could sympathize
with what Floridians faced,
she said, after living through
tornadoes back home with
terrifyingly high winds.
There is little you can do
to prepare for those,
Ratkovic said. You just
have to run like a bug under-
ground.
While the storms track
remained uncertain, a countries.
widening area braced for its
effects. North Carolina Gov.
Roy Cooper issued a state-
wide emergency declaration
on Thursday, a day after
South Carolina did so.
President Trump was
briefed in the Oval Office
about storm preparations
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
tal carnage.
in the city of Marathon. He is
expecting the worst there af-
ter seeing images of what
Irma did farther south in the
Caribbean.
If it hits like that in the
Keys, it will be horrible, he
said.
It had taken Garcia six
hours to get home from Mar-
athon, and the same kind of
traffic was said to be
clogging the roads to the
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport, which
Marina Pizzarello of Queens,
N.Y., was trying to reach with
her mother. They had been
vacationing together at the
Loews Miami Beach Hotel.
With flights booked up
everywhere, Pizzarello will
have to fly from Fort Lau-
derdale to Atlanta to Syra-
cuse, N.Y. From Syracuse,
some 250 miles north of New
York City, she will have to
catch a train back home.
If she gets to the airport.
Its a horror show, she
said.
evan.halper@latimes.com
Twitter: @evanhalper
L AT I M E S . C O M
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
and Irmas projected path.
Earlier, he tweeted a remind-
er to those in Irmas path to
be careful, be safe, as the
storm approaches.
As Thursday dawned,
daylight harshly illuminated
the storms destructive ram-
page through the hardest-
hit eastern Caribbean is-
lands, many with colonial
links to Western European
Boats were tossed onto
land. Electrical wires dan-
gled. Streets had turned to
rivers. Structures were
splintered, with doors and
shutters leaning at crazy an-
gles.
Its an enormous disas-
ter 95% of the island is de-
stroyed, Daniel Gibbs,
chairman of a local council
on the French-Dutch island
of St. Martin, told Radio Ca-
ribbean International.
Frances interior min-
ister, Gerard Collomb, told
French radio that more
dead and injured were likely
to be discovered as author-
ities explore all the shores.
A Dutch warship has ar-
rived at St. Maarten, the
Netherlands military said.
The Dutch interior minister,
Ronald Plasterk, who con-
firmed at least one death,
said there could be more
casualties.
Dutch Prime Minister
Mark Rutte earlier said pre-
liminary assessments had
painted a bleak picture of
the storms aftermath.
There is no power, no
gasoline, no running water,
Dutch media quoted him as
saying. Houses are under-
water, cars are floating in the
streets, and people are sit-
ting in the dark, in ruined
houses, cut off from the out-
side world.
The independent island
nation of Antigua and Bar-
buda reported overwhelm-
ing destruction on Barbuda,
with 90% of buildings dam-
aged or destroyed and one
death reported. Prime Min-
ister Gaston Browne, speak-
ing to the BBC, called it to-
Britain was dispatching
two warships and hundreds
of troops to aid people in its
territories, including the
British Virgin Islands and
Turks and Caicos.
Frances president, Em-
manuel Macron, who had
predicted a harsh ultimate
toll in his nations Caribbean
territories, used the occa-
sion to call attention to the
dangers of global warming.
Macron, on an official trip
to Greece, said he would visit
the hurricane-ravaged
French territories as soon as
weather permitted.
Meanwhile, another Ca-
ribbean storm was lining up
behind this one: Hurricane
Jose, which has grown into a
Category 2 storm. Those
covered by a hurricane
watch include some of the
same islands battered by
Irma.
evan.halper@latimes.com
laura.king@latimes.com
Staff writer Halper reported
from Miami and staff writer
King from Washington.
Special correspondent Les
Neuhaus contributed from
Homestead, Fla.
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THE WRATH OF HARVEY

The long,
long, long
wait begins
Soggy homes, FEMA,
insurance claims,
contractors: Harvey
survivors know its
going to be awhile.
By Joe Mozingo
HOUSTON They idled
the afternoon away, sta-
tioned behind a barricade of
half-inch plywood that kept
the boat wake from rolling
through their front door.
The water on the street
had turned from clear to
brown, and gone up and
down for days.
Drew Connor, 33, gauged
its height where it lapped at
the bricks on his mailbox pil-
lar.
It looks like its gone
down a brick, he told his
wife.
Water had not crept into
their home in west Houston,
but with no Internet or tele-
vision, he and his wife, Hai-
ley Hughes, had little to do
but sit on the stoop and wait
as their neighborhood re-
verted to wilderness. Fish
hawks hunted on the streets.
The night buzzed like a jun-
gle. Houses began to decay.
The tragedy and drama
of Harvey were profound.
But since the storm passed,
and as the nation prepared
for new devastation from
Hurricane Irma, the reality
for most people in the Texas
flood zones has been a long,
buggy trip back to a more
primitive time and an anx-
ious and excruciatingly bor-
ing wait.
Waiting for the FEMA
man, waiting for insurance
adjusters, waiting for the
water to recede, waiting for
the power to come on, wait-
ing for the walls to dry, wait-
ing for contractors, waiting
for a spot at the shelter, wait-
ing to find a hotel, waiting to
get out of the in-laws house.
Connor and Hughes let
flooded neighbors stay in
their home; they waited as
their guests worked to move
furniture and clothes to sec-
ond stories, secure their
homes, turn off power and
retrieve personal docu-
ments and photos.
One day, Hughes kay-
aked to her aunts house a
mile away, and as she passed
other hold-outs scattered
about on their own desert is-
lands, they asked her what
was happening over there
or back there. She felt like a
19th century postman carry-
ing news across the frontier.
As they relaxed on their
front entry, Connor drinking
a whiskey and Coke, an air-
boat roared through, setting
off the cicadas.
When the shrill petered
out, it was dead quiet.
Its like zen, she said.
It gets old, he said.
Its been up and down for
me, he added about his
mood. Crazy then calm,
crazy then calm.
My mom told me I
should grind up some pills
and give them to him, she
said.
They figured when they
were done helping neigh-
bors, theyd leave and stay
with her family.
For those whose homes
flooded, the wait has been all
the more miserable.
The smell of mold and al-
gae, silt packed on the floors,
putrid refrigerators that
beached in odd rooms like
dead whales.
DREW CONNOR and wife Hailey Hughes, right, watch the tide rise and fall from their front porch in Hous-
ton. With them is neighbor Maja Kuehner. Connor described his mood as crazy then calm, crazy then calm.
Those who had second
stories moved into them.
Many went to shelters or
moved in with family mem-
bers and friends. Many oth-
ers stayed to protect their
homes from looters, to rip
out carpets and drywall, to
be there when FEMA ar-
rived.
Streets east of down-
town, where the waters re-
ceded last week, now had
berms of flood detritus in-
stead of curbs bedraggled
couches, tables, warped
cabinets, clothes, muddy
carpets, sheetrock turned to
sludge.
The sun came out blister-
ing and tropical, and mos-
quitoes found paradise.
Are you the FEMA
man? a resident asked a re-
porter walking down such a
road, St. Louis Street, in the
Trinity/Houston Gardens
neighborhood.
All eyes were eagerly up-
on him, until he said he
wasnt. They went back to
work or talking. Many were
trying to get their flood in-
surance adjuster on the
phone or a FEMA inspector
to view their damage.
Some of them got this
message on the FEMA web-
site: The inspection of your
property is pending because
the area where your proper-
ty is located is inaccessible.
Truth was, the federal in-
spectors could surely access
the street the postal
carrier rolled down the block
with ease. But the numbers
of people filing applications
for relief online were over-
whelming.
James Jackson, 57, used a
bucket to scoop the last cou-
ple inches of water out of a
low spot in his family home.
The smell inside was nox-
ious. His older sisters lived
there now, and he doubted
they had any insurance.
I think theyre just wait-
ing for FEMA.
In Kashmere Gardens, to
the south, Renee Bradford
sat in her apartment with
the fan on and windows
open, waiting and hoping for
the stench to dry out.
The uncertainty felt like a
pit in her gut. Bradford, 58,
said she just had a brain tu-
mor removed and couldnt
go back to work as a phar-
macy technician because of
dizzy spells. But she was still
waiting for her disability
payments to be approved.
Her friend had let her stay in
the apartment for free. Now
it was in ruins.
Shed been sleeping at a
family members place, but
the quarters were cramped
and she didnt want to be a
burden, so she spends days
here trying to figure out
what to do.
She teared up looking at
the mess of her belongings,
rotting in heaps. I want to
be self-sufficient.
In a public housing proj-
ect in the Fifth Ward, Rod-
erick and Kimberly Francis
had escaped the storm to
find themselves knee-deep
in the bureaucratic bog.
At a downtown shelter,
they registered with FEMA
and the agency said it would
pay their bills at approved
hotels. Happy to have some
privacy, they reserved a
room at the Comfort Inn and
Suites. But when they ar-
rived, the man at the front
desk said they did not qual-
ify. He called FEMA and
handed her the phone. All of
our representatives are
busy; please call again.
Kimberly felt what didnt
qualify was the high rate
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
the hotel was charging, not
the family. But she had no
way to prove it. So she paid
$129 and hoped to be reim-
bursed later. The next
nights rate was $151.
They started couch-surf-
ing with family members af-
ter that, spending their days
dragging their salvageable
stuff to a storage locker.
Roderick met with a FEMA
inspector who took pictures
of the apartment and their
losses.
The apartment was un-
livable. Even the inspector
said so. But the manager
told them they had to pay
their $706 rent on time or be
evicted and bumped out
of public housing for good.
So now they were again
waiting on hold on their
cellphones while navigating
a different federal agency
website, hud.gov.
And the biggest problem:
At each part of their journey
through limbo, they were
among thousands, all wait-
ing, as FEMA looks to be-
come even more burdened,
when Irma reaches the Flor-
ida Straits.
joe.mozingo@latimes.com

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OPINION
EDITORIALS LETTERS
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Keep Van Houten in prison

sweatshops exist and
persist, and in California of
all places.
The onus now lies on us,
the consumers, to hold the
ceeded. Unsolved for weeks, the killings
retailers responsible for
Its a complicated call, but Gov. frightened Los Angeles in the late summer of this egregious violation of
1969. In rejecting parole last year, Brown
Brown should reject parole for the noted that the shocking nature of the
human rights. We need to
boycott their businesses,
former Manson family member. crimes left an indelible mark on society. write to the CEOs and the
It did yet we are given pause. A sen- California Retailers Assn.,

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tence and subsequent parole decisions and insist that all workers
eslie Van Houten of Monrovia should take into account the fact that the be paid a living wage.
was just a teenager when she criminals hoped to instigate terror, but that We consumers also need
helped kill Rosemary LaBianca on doesnt mean that the punishment should to be willing to pay an
Aug. 9, 1969. Her mind was argu- depend on how much attention a particular appropriate price for our
ably muddled by drug use, as well crime generated, whether the victims in- clothes.
as by the hold that Charles Manson and his cluded movie stars or whether the assailants KCNA / EPA Lynda Obershaw
cult-like family exerted over her. Her death were a headline-magnet like Manson and his KIM JONG UN inspects a hydrogen bomb to be Pasadena
sentence was thrown out more than 40 years young, mostly female spellbound hangers- mounted on a missile, according to North Korea.
ago, and she has spent most of her life eligible on. Crimes should not be punished because ::
for parole yet still in prison. She has repeat-
edly expressed remorse. There is no evidence
that she would pose a danger to anyone. Isnt
they were among the defining horrors of a
particular generation, but rather because
they were crimes.
Talk nuke tests first Any discussion of who is
responsible for underpaid
workers in the garment
it time that California released her? Van Houtens crime resulted in a sentence Re Uniting against North Korea, editorial, Sept. 7 industry should include
No. of death in 1971. This page opposes the death the subject of executive
Inexplicably, some find the call to be an penalty in all circumstances and would op- We should try talks with North Korea, starting by compensation.
easy one. Hard-liners will argue that brutal pose such a sentence for Van Houten were getting that country to stop nuclear testing. According to Morning-
murderers like Van Houten forever give up she facing it today. Every nuclear test by North Korea brings its regime star, the total compensa-
any right to liberty or even life. Others ex- But just because we are morally opposed closer to perfecting a weapon that could reach American tion for the five key execu-
press outrage that the state would keep a to execution does not mean we automatically soil. But if we engage the North on ending nuclear tests, tives at Ross Stores Inc. in
person locked up for decades merely to satis- reject any form of retribution as opposed we not only halt that progress, but also open the door for 2016 was about $35 million.
fy some inchoate societal urge for retribu- to mere deterrence for crimes with a par- more agreements. If these executives were
tion, long after the other reasons we put peo- ticularly corrosive effect on society. Retribu- The United States, North Korea and China should paid less, Ross could afford
ple in prison to prevent them from com- tion should be meted out sparingly and together ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban to pay its contractors
mitting new crimes, to deter others, to reha- should be balanced with mercy. But it has a Treaty, which bans all nuclear test explosions. The responsible for manufac-
bilitate them no longer apply. valid role. United States and China have not tested nuclear turing apparel more, and
But for most people who sincerely grap- As it happens, court rulings in 1972 de- the contractors could
weapons for decades and have no need to, so ratification
ple with the question, it is a very difficult, clared the states process for imposing the afford to pay their workers
should be relatively simple.
emotionally wrenching and intellectually death penalty unconstitutional, leaving Van more.
The three nations could then take part in on-site
vexing call indeed. Now that Van Houten has Houten and other death-row inmates with Excessive executive
inspection exercises, which treaty members regularly compensation is unfair,
for the second time been found suitable for sentences of life in prison with the possibility practice. That experience can build the confidence for immoral and bad for busi-
parole by a state parole panel, it falls to Gov. of parole. Even quirkier circumstances com- peace and more agreements that could lead to ending ness.
Jerry Brown also for the second time to plicate her case. Her lawyer died during trial, North Koreas nuclear program. Mary Bomba
decide whether to uphold that decision. A causing an appeals court to grant her a new Diplomacy can still work, but you have to work at it. Los Angeles
year ago, he said no. He was right then, and trial in 1977, resulting in her being sentenced The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty gives us
he should say no again. But its complicated. to seven years to life. this opportunity to resolve the North Korean crisis
Van Houten joined other Manson family We dont argue that Van Houten should
murderers on the second night of a killing be denied any chance at parole, or that her
peacefully. We should take it.
William Lambers
The right home
spree, invading the Los Feliz home of Leno
and Rosemary LaBianca and terrorizing the
youth or her drug-impaired brain should
never be taken into account. But although
Cincinnati buyer: not you
couple before killing them. Van Houten held she may have been unclear on the details of Re Sticker shock jolts
down Rosemary LaBianca as others stabbed Mansons insane plot to foment terror, stitch- The only alternative to Dealing with millions of them to Pacoima, column,
her. Then Van Houten herself plunged a knife ed together from various Beatles lyrics, she war with North Korea is people here illegally is not Sept. 3
into the victim more than a dozen times. The knew what she was doing. Although she was the United States ending about fear of immigrants,
killers wrote messages on the walls using a teenager when she killed, she was legally an all trade with China if it it is about effectively con- Once again, Steve
their victims blood. adult. There necessarily is an element of ran- continues to prop up Kim trolling our sovereign Lopez skillfully showcases
It was a particularly gruesome and hor- domness in any line-drawing exercise. Jong Uns regime. borders. There is nothing issues that confront regu-
rific murder, but it was also an act of terror- It would be fair to ask when Van Houten China alone is responsi- cruel about seriously lar folks. The reality for
ism. Manson intended to wage a race war, should be released if not now. Never? We ble for permitting this facing the issue and giving most of us who live in Los
and he wanted the murders to get the project dont say never. But we look at her crime and rogue regime to starve its Congress a deadline to act Angeles is that housing in
people and build hydrogen in order to do so. much of the area is unaf-
underway by throwing the city into panic. its role in a plan to destabilize society and we
bombs, and its Chinas The hope that Congress fordable.
To an extent, he and his followers suc- must say not yet.
responsibility to prevent a will act is substantially One quote stood out to
potential nuclear holo- strengthened by the dead- me.
caust. We Americans must line the president has Steve Adams, a nurse
be prepared to see our established for ending the who moved here with his
economy take a hit, one Deferred Action for Child- wife Rebekah Adams from

Mend CEQA, dont bend it that will be costly and

disruptive. A point has
hood Arrivals program. It
is a good move for both
Minnesota, said about
their search for a house in

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been reached where the sides of the debate. many parts of Los Angeles,
options are only bad and It also is a good move for Weve lived all over the
alifornia lawmakers are or addressing public concerns. Again law- worse, and we must choose our constitutional repub- United States and Ive
again considering a last-minute makers should be looking for ways to ensure bad. lic. President Obama was never seen this disparity
bill that would let deep-pocketed CEQA isn't misused to impede major public China isnt the enemy, against taking action like between the haves and
developers and favored projects infrastructure improvements. But throwing but it is the key. We should DACA before he was for it. have-nots.
cut corners on the states land- out CEQA altogether is unwarranted and demonstrate to the Chi- President Trump is ac- Theres only one thing
mark environmental law. wrongheaded. nese through our willing- knowledging that the Id change in Rebekahs
Last week Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gar- The exemption for the Olympics, it turns ness to take this drastic DACA executive order is comment, The middle
dena) introduced a bill that was pitched as a out, was a sweetener added to make the bill economic step that the dubious, but more impor- class is becoming a mythi-
way to dramatically speed the construction more palatable to lawmakers who want to Kim regime must go. There tantly has placed the issue cal beast. Perhaps we can
of transit lines and parking lots needed for support the 2028 Games. But as soon as the is no peaceful alternative to squarely in the lap of Con- all agree that the word
the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028. bill became public last week, Los Angeles this strategy. gress, where it can be de- becoming is unnecessary
Bradfords big idea? Exempting the projects Mayor Eric Garcetti who has spearheaded If China still refuses to bated and the resolution and inaccurate.
from all the studies and public input required the citys Olympic bid said the city did not end its support of North made law, not dictated. Choral Brown
by the California Environmental Quality Act. request the exemption or think it was neces- Korea, then it must be Jeffrey C. Briggs Culver City
The primary beneficiaries of Senate Bill 789, sary. The LA2028 bid committee also sent a prepared to accept a nu- Hollywood
clear-armed Japan, a nu- ::
however, would be the proposed Clippers letter to Bradford asking him to remove the
clear-armed South Korea
arena and other projects in Inglewood's Olympics exemptions from the bill.
sports and entertainment district. The Olympics provisions are just part of
and, eventually, war on the
Korean peninsula.
Retailers that use This was not a column
about the vanishing middle
Bradfords bill is the latest salvo in the on- the problem with SB 789, however. The bill
going fight over CEQA, which was enacted would exempt from CEQA a proposed tran-
Joseph Charney
South Pasadena
L.A. sweatshops class, which is a large issue
in this country.
more than 40 years ago as a way to inform, sit link between the Crenshaw/LAX Line now Re Behind a $13 shirt, a This was nothing more
protect and empower the public by requiring being built and the new NFL stadium for the :: $6-an-hour worker, Sept. 3 than a complaint about
developers to disclose the environmental ef- Rams and the Chargers in the same part of how the classic economic
fects of their projects and to mitigate any Inglewood as the proposed new Clippers It might be time for the To think that in Cali- theory of supply and de-
harm they may cause. While CEQA is a vital arena. It would let the city of Inglewood use worlds major powers to fornia, one of the most mand affects the price of a
tool that has made countless projects better eminent domain to take private property, ex- take a different approach progressive states, there commodity for which a
since its inception, it is also too easily used to cept homes, for the sports and entertain- to North Korea. are still apparel makers relatively fixed quantity is
tie up projects with costly and time-consum- ment district without first completing the Since Kim possesses that pay sweatshop wages available. After all, nobody
ing lawsuits for reasons that have nothing to CEQA analysis. And it would halt a judges nuclear weapons and to their workers when I can manufacture more
do with environmental protection. ability to block the project, even if the judge shows no signs of giving believed that by raising the land, and even if density
Rather than address the broader problem found that an environmental review already them up, perhaps the U.S. minimum wage to $15 an was vastly increased,
of CEQA abuse, its become commonplace conducted was deeply flawed. and other nuclear powers hour by 2022, Californians prices in the more central
for lawmakers to craft CEQA exemptions for The developers of the Clippers arena ar- should say this: OK, were doing the right thing parts of Los Angeles will
projects they favor often multi-million-dol- gue they need the bill to prevent competitors North Korea, youve done is heartbreaking. remain high.
it. You are one of us; you are As I stewed in disbelief What came across is
lar sports venues, such as the Kings arena in namely, they say, the owners of Staples
a nuclear power. Welcome and embarrassment after that this couple wanted
Sacramento. Its a cop-out that advances the Center and the Forum from using CEQA
to the club. Now, please reading The Times report, everything in their new
interests only of well-connected developers lawsuits to delay or kill the project. Chris
join us in sharing responsi- I jotted down the names of home: a nice climate, close
and growth-hungry local officials. Meany, the arena project manager, argued bility for the fate of the the companies that pur- to work or easy public
But as for making more substantive re- that CEQA is too easily weaponized by op- world. chased and sold these transportation, decent
forms to CEQA? No way, thats the third rail ponents. It seems to me that this garments. Maybe my busi- size, safe for them and their
of California politics. Lawmakers refuse Hes got a point. Businesses have used is what North Korea wants ness wasnt that important dog, no major renovations
touch it. So they keep introducing exemp- CEQA lawsuits to block competition, and to be treated with re- to them, but I will certainly needed, hip restaurants
tions that erode CEQAs protections, project neighborhood groups have used the law as a spect. Why continue to boycott and spread the and more. And they did not
by project. Bradfords might be the most ag- bargaining chip to coax money or conces- treat it like a misbehaving word to my friends not to expect to pay much for all
gressive yet. sions from developers. So, yes, there is a real child who has run off with buy from Forever 21, Ross that.
First, SB 789 would exempt from CEQA need for changes that make it harder to mis- the family car without Dress for Less and TJ Nor were they willing to
the construction of any trains, monorails, use CEQA. permission? Why not in- Maxx until they pay back make the trade of pre-
street cars or parking lots that could be used But lawmakers willingness to ignore that stead allow North Korea to wages to the workers de- cious hours, which a lot of
during the Olympics. That would be unprec- larger problem while passing exemption af- actually be one of the manding the minimum other people make not only
edented in California, and essentially give ter exemption for the billion-dollar sports grown-ups? wage owed to them. by commuting but by
government agencies and developers carte teams, corporations and developers only The established powers In the meantime, I will working extended hours.
blanche to build hugely disruptive multi-mil- underscores what many Californians already might not like the idea look for the label and pur- What, should we force the
lion-dollar projects without studying the po- believe: that the laws mandates are nego- initially, but the facts sug- chase items from the com- sale of housing at an af-
gest that this is what must pany started by Dov Char- fordable price with a
tential environmental or community impacts tiable for the rich and well-connected.
be done. It is time now to ney, Los Angeles Apparel, lottery to determine which
keep the world safe in which pays workers $15 an deserving couple gets it?
whatever way possible. hour. I hope The Times will The competitive market
Karl Lisovsky continue to inform its for housing does not well
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An Israel litmus test
Why you should care about a
political fight brewing at the
Center for Jewish History.
By Mark Oppenheimer
I
t might seem an insignificant dis-
pute, a tiny ship in a small bottle float-
ing on a far-off sea. Who cares if a for-
mer UCLA history professor keeps his
job as president of the Center for Jew-
ish History in New York City?
But the fight over David N. Myers, who
was tapped to head the Center in June, and
whom right-wing adversaries are now try-
ing to get fired, is about America, and Jews,
and intellectual freedom. And its about the
intrusion of politics and money into the
world of scholarship.
The Center for Jewish History houses
five scholarly organizations, including the
American Jewish Historical Society.
Among scholars, the appointment of the
UCLA historian was the opposite of contro-
versial. Brandeis University historian Jon-
athan D. Sarna called Myers the very em-
bodiment of what the center should be.
But this week, an opinion piece appeared in
three politically conservative Jewish publi-
cations, assailing Myers as an extremist
who, according to one of the headlines,
must be fired for radical viewpoints.
The short piece appearing on the
websites of the Jewish Press, the
Algemeiner and the Israeli network Arutz
Sheva carries three bylines: Ronn
Torossian, Hank Sheinkopf and George
Birnbaum. It attacks Myers for serving on
the board of the liberal New Israel Fund; for
having helped raise money online for If Not
Now, which opposes the occupation of the
West Bank; and for advising J Street, a
lobby that supports a two-state solution.
The op-ed also links to several essays
and reviews written by Myers, including
DAVID HORSEY
David Horsey cartoon about Texas,
hurricane Harvey and federal aid.
The NFLs Kaepernick fumble
By Dave Zirin
C
harles Goodell was a Republi-
can senator from New York and
the father of National Football
League Commissioner Roger
Goodell. The elder Goodell rep-
resents one of the last of a now-extinct
species known as liberal Republicans, and
he made President Nixons enemies list in
1969 after introducing legislation to defund
the Vietnam War.
In 1973, having been driven from office,
Charles Goodell wrote Political Prisoners
in America, a remarkably bracing treatise
about the legacy of state repression in the
United States and the importance of dis-
sent in American life.
I have come to see, Goodell presciently
wrote, that our legal and political institu-
tions are dangerously unresponsive and
unyielding to the impassioned grievances
of our own people. When words of appeal
fall upon a seemingly inert system, words
give way to action.
I dont know whether Roger Goodell
ever read his fathers book, but this is cer-
tain: Neither he nor the team owners he rep-
resents have taken its lessons to heart. The
National Football League has yet to sign
free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick
for the 2017 season, and the reasons are ob-
vious: It is punishing a player for practicing
political dissent.
Last year, Kaepernick, playing for the
San Francisco 49ers, made international
news by taking a knee during the national
anthem to raise awareness about racism
and police violence. He inspired similar
protests on other NFL sidelines, in Texas
middle schools, and at a baseball game in
Oakland, where an entire school band knelt
during its performance of the anthem. But
he also received a torrent of criticism and
death threats for his efforts.
Amid the maelstrom, Kaepernick threw
for 16 touchdowns and just four inter-
OP-ED
one from the New Republic magazine, in
2008, in which he writes that the deep
wound of the Nakba catastrophe, how
Palestinians refer to the founding of the
state of Israel in 1948 must finally be ex-
posed to the light of day, and in some way be
healed.
Torossian, Sheinkopf and Birnbaum
are not scholars. A man Atlantic editor Jeff-
rey Goldberg once called the most disrep-
utable flack in New York, Torossian has
done public relations for rapper Lil Kim
and the late televangelist Paul Crouch. Hes
the PR man of choice for (in Goldbergs
words) the lunatic fringe of Israeli politics
(but also, Torossian pointed out, for may-
ors of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv). Sheinkopf
does PR for companies including Home
Depot and runs political campaigns,
mostly for Democrats, mostly in New York.
Birnbaum, a former chief of staff for Israeli
leader Benjamin Netanyahu, advised the
presidential campaign of Ben Carson.
Torossian et al. have company. In the di-
vided world of Israel politics, many on the
right see even center-left groups such as J
Street as hostile to the Jewish state. They
see Myers vague openness to a possible
partial boycott of Israel one that tar-
gets companies that make arms used in the
occupation of the West Bank as equiva-
lent to wishing for Israels demise. They see
the use of the Arab word nakba as a prov-
ocation. In this reading, a liberal scholar
like Myers becomes an enemy of his people.
To defend Myers against charges of
anti-Zionism misses the point. What if My-
ers were an anti-Zionist somebody who,
while loving Jews and Judaism and Jewish
history, thought that Israels founding was
a mistake, or thought that its privileging of
Jews in law and immigration policy was
wrong? To be clear, there is no evidence
that he holds those views. (Reached by
email Thursday, Myers declined to com-
ment.) But if he did, would that disqualify
him from running a scholarly center?
Not, I should think, if his scholarship
ceptions in 12 games, and he led the league
in quarterback yards per carry, averaging
6.8 yards every time he ran the ball. Despite
playing for his third coach in three seasons
on a team that was among the league lead-
ers in dropped passes, he had his best per-
sonal passer rating since 2013. But a league
that signs players who have been involved
in murders, violence against women and
dog-fighting has found standing up to rac-
ism to be a bridge too far.
Kaepernicks unemployment has
turned into a public relations nightmare,
and now the NFL is pushing back against
the conventional wisdom that a black-
balling has taken place.
Just this past week, as the season got
underway, we saw general managers under
the veil of anonymity express their belief
that Kaepernicks politics have nothing to
do with his job prospects: He simply isnt
good enough to play. This thesis was trotted
out in the New York Times by Colin Flem-
ing, who wrote a maddeningly ignorant
piece called Maybe Colin Kaepernick Is
Just Not That Good.
Phrased as an authoritative statistical
defense of the idea of merit, Fleming ar-
gued that Kaepernick hasnt been signed
because he lacks talent. Yes, someone who
does not watch film or study tape for a living
has a definitive position that Kaepernick is
not good enough to play. And toward the
end of the piece, Fleming admitted, The
older I get, the less I care about football. I
cant tell if that is a sign of shamelessness or
sloth.
The people who play professional foot-
ball disagree with Fleming. They think its
absurd that Kaepernick is without a team.
Not only is Kaepernick unsigned, there are
quarterbacks on rosters who were retired
last season, threw for negative yards in col-
lege or are best known by phrases like butt
fumble. As Green Bay Packers star
quarterback Aaron Rodgers said last week,
it is ignorant to think that Kaepernick is
were sound, and his management compe-
tent. By imposing litmus tests from the
right, Torossian and his co-writers repeat a
mistake of the far left, which has become in-
hospitable to supporters of Israel.
The campaign against Myers reflects a
growing inability to respond appropriately
to divergent ideas," said Aaron Lerner, the
Hillel rabbi at UCLA who is Orthodox and a
Zionist. "If you disagree with someone
debate him! Win the war of ideas. But let's
stop trying to get people fired because we
disagree with their politics.
Torossian doesnt see it that way.
PETA would probably not appoint some-
body who is a great hunter to a position
there, he said. But the Center for Jewish
History is a scholarly center, not a pro-Isra-
el group.
The Zionist hope was for a country
where Jews could be free of loyalty oaths,
free to flourish as whomever we wanted to
be. In saying which Jews deserve to work in
the community, Torossian and the others
are constricting possibilities for Jewish life
by using threats to try to get a man fired.
We are absolutely persuading donors,
speaking actively to donors, and if this man
remains there, I am confident they will see a
rapid decline in donations, Torossian said.
(When I asked if he was a donor to the cen-
ter, he said, Im not going to answer that.)
Nearly 500 Jewish scholars, rabbis and
writers, including Holocaust historian
Deborah Lipstadt and, I should add, me
signed a petition defending Myers; it was
posted online Thursday.
So far, the Center for Jewish History has
stood by its man, saying in a statement that
the board has full confidence in his ability
to lead the Center in the fulfillment of its
mission. Is this enough to defeat the man
who represented Lil Kim? For the sake of
good scholarship, I hope so.
Mark Oppenheimer, a contributing
writer to Opinion, is the host of the
podcast Unorthodox.
David Horsey Los Angeles Times
unemployed because of his play.
I think he should be on a roster right
now, Rodgers told ESPNs Mina Kimes. I
think because of his protests, hes not.
Rodgers is not alone.
The rash of anonymously sourced arti-
cles trashing Kaepernicks play came just
days after several thousand people rallied
in front of Goodells NFL headquarters on
Park Avenue in New York City: a demon-
stration that loudly called out a league de-
pendent on the physical punishment of
black bodies, a league that in the words of
the Rev. Jamal Bryant is more comfort-
able with concussions than someone hav-
ing a conscience.
The NFL seems to believe that shutting
out Kaepernick will be like a crack of the
whip across the backs of its players, stamp-
ing out dissent, keeping everyone in line.
But the opposite has been the case. During
the preseason, and in the wake of events in
Charlottesville, Va., more and more players
stepped forward to sit, take a knee or raise a
fist during the anthem, and they are not shy
about telling the world why. Unlike last sea-
son, white players also have involved them-
selves in these protests.
For most of the protesting players Ive
talked with, Kaepernick is not a distrac-
tion but a friend, a colleague or a team-
mate, and one whose fellow 49ers voted to
give him the teams courage award at the
conclusion of last season. NFL owners want
Kaepernick to be a ghost story to scare
players from speaking out. Instead, his ab-
sence haunts the NFL far more effectively
than if he were where he deserves to be: on
an NFL roster. Charles Goodell could have
seen this coming from miles away. His son
could not.
Dave Zirin is sports editor of the Nation
and author of eight books on the politics
of sports. He is working with Seattle
Seahawk Michael Bennett on Bennetts
autobiography.
F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017 A15
Tighten the
North Korea
sanctions. Its
the only way.
By Sung-Yoon Lee
N
orth Korea isnt stopping.
Whether the powerful nuclear
device it detonated Sunday
really is compatible with an
intercontinental ballistic mis-
sile matters far less than the fact that the
Kim Jong Un regime now stands on the
verge of nuclear breakout. Simply put, Kim
is ever closer to being able to kill millions of
people outside North Korea, not least
Americans.
Which is precisely the message behind
Pyongyangs repeated missile tests with
more threatened for as early as this week-
end and Kims bluster barrage over the
last several months.
Kim is driven by a systemic need to over-
turn the unfavorable equation on the Kore-
an peninsula: The backward totalitarian
North versus a prosperous and pleasant
South. South Koreas mere existence poses
an existential threat to Pyongyang. Kims
ultimate goal is to evict U.S. troops from the
South through nuclear blackmail, then,
through graduated escalation, isolate and
bully risk-averse Seoul. Pyongyangs latest
actions take it a leap closer to achieving this
goal.
The dangerous situation were facing
was entirely predictable. For more than 20
years, policymakers of various political col-
ors on both sides of the Pacific have treated
North Koreas growing nuclear and missile
threat with condescension buttressed by
dithery diplomacy. Seoul and Washington
have alternated between halfhearted sanc-
tions and sending billions of dollars of aid
into Pyongyangs coffers, at times even si-
multaneously sanctioning North Korea
and subsidizing it. The effect has been
wildly successful for North Korea. Pyong-
yang has yet to see any advantage in giving
up its carrot-and-stick nuclear posturing.
Yet not all is lost. As U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations Nikki Haley said this
week at the Security Council, the incre-
mental approach and half measures of
the past must be replaced with the strong-
est sanctions. However, if the sanctions
are strong only on paper, nothing will
change. The U.S. and its allies have to invest
time and resources to enforce them. Viola-
tors must be met with biting financial con-
sequences. The U.S. is uniquely positioned
to punish violators, thanks to the strength
of the dollar.
The baffling fact is that the United
States has never exerted the full force of its
sanction power against Pyongyang. Until
2016, U.S. sanctions against North Korea
were weaker in kind and degree than those
against Sudan, Zimbabwe, Cuba and the
Democratic Republic of Congo states
that pose no national security threat to the
U.S. They were also far weaker than sanc-
tions against Russia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and
the Balkan states.
Even since 2016, Washington has held
back from doing all it could do against
North Korea. Self-deterred by exaggerated
fears of more North Korean provocation
and Chinese economic retaliation, the U.S.
has yet to fine the largest of the Chinese
banks and state companies that are in bla-
tant violation of U.S. laws and U.N. Security
Council resolutions regarding Pyongyang.
And yet money talks, as we saw in the
curtailing of Irans nuclear ambitions. As
the U.S. fined international companies and
banks that continued to do prohibited busi-
ness with Iran, Tehran increasingly iso-
lated made the decision to return to ne-
gotiations. In just one example, the U.S.
fined Frances largest bank, BNP Paribas,
$8.9 billion for violating Iran sanctions (and
those against Sudan and Cuba as well). The
bank pleaded guilty, accepted the fine and
withdrew from its Iran ties rather than be
blocked out of the U.S. dollar system. In
June, the U.S. put pressure on the Bank of
Dandong, a small Chinese bank that serves
as a dollar conduit for North Korean activ-
ities, but no fine or threatened block of the
magnitude of the BNP Paribas action has
been imposed on Chinese entities.
Through serious and sustained finan-
cial constriction, Washington could compel
Kim to modify his behavior freeze his nu-
clear and missile programs, open up his
country and dismantle his gulags. Full de-
nuclearization would not happen until
Kim, under financial stress, could no longer
placate his generals and faced the specter
of regime collapse. Throughout the proc-
ess, Washington must communicate to Kim
and his cronies that there is a way out. Re-
form or abdicate. (Posh exile isnt what Kim
Jong Un deserves, but it would be a small
price to pay for liberating the Korean penin-
sula.)
Pyongyang, although far from suicidal,
needs to menace Washington if it has any
hope of prevailing over Seoul. If the U.S.
were to cave in and abandon South Korea,
nothing would be resolved and the risk of
another war started by the North would
only increase. (The last time the U.S. with-
drew troops from South Korea, in 1949,
there was war the next year; it claimed tens
of thousands of American lives. This time,
nuclear weapons could be in play.)
Full-throttled financial sanctions in
the face of obfuscation, evasion, provoca-
tions and disingenuous negotiations are
Americas best and only option, short of
military action. Temporary deals followed
by premature relaxation of sanctions would
only bring fake peace to the Korean penin-
sula and buy Pyongyang time and money.
Give real peace and an end to the Kim re-
gime a chance.
Sung-Yoon Lee is the Kim Koo-Korea
Foundation professor of Korean studies
and an assistant professor at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University.
A16 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 LOS ANGELES TIMES

CALIFORNIA
GINA CLAYTON , formerly a New York public defender, with her grandmother Velma Halliburton, who
helped inspire her to found the Essie Justice Group, a support network for women with loved ones in prison.
Putting women at
heart of bail reform
Mothers and grandmothers often bear the burden when loved ones
are in prison. A group draws on their experience to fight for change.
By Jazmine Ulloa
As a public defender in
New York City, Gina Clayton
realized the cash bail system
used in most state courts
across the country was plac-
ing a heavy burden on wom-
en. The grandmothers and
mothers who visited her of-
fice bailed relatives out so
often that they knew several
bond agents by name.
Often the women naviga-
ted complicated contracts
and paid high fees alone, she
said. Many ended up swim-
ming in debt. Some lost their
homes.
Frustrated by the daily
churn of cases, she moved
back to her hometown, Los
Angeles, four years ago. She
had a mission.
I wanted to know what
mass incarceration was do-
ing to women in this country,
Clayton, 34, recalled at her
[See Bail reform, B6]
Suit over Pellicano scheme settled
L.A. will compensate
victims of officer who
snooped for former
celebrity private eye.
By Richard Winton
It started with a cryptic
threat: a dead fish and a rose
left inside a Los Angeles
Times reporters car, and a
note that simply read Stop
on the fractured windshield.
An FBI investigation into
the threat would uncover a
criminal scheme in which ce-
lebrity private eye Anthony
Pellicano was illegally gath-
ering information for his
star-studded list of clients.
The scandal ensnared
Hollywood powerhouses,
An effort to speed up big developments
By Liam Dillon
SACRAMENTO Face-
book executives and a New
York developer are hoping
that their major devel-
opment projects can get
built years sooner than
planned under last-minute
legislation at the state Capi-
tol.
The tech company and
F R I D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A
DIANNA VINEYARD with grandson Deshawn Mitchell at an Essie Justice
Group meeting. The group is one of many challenging the cash bail system.
executives and celebrities as
well as a Los Angeles Police
Department detective, Sgt.
Mark Arneson, whom Pelli-
cano paid to provide him
with confidential law en-
forcement records on hun-
dreds of people.
Fifteen years later, the
city of Los Angeles is about
to compensate victims of the
scheme as part of a class-ac-
tion lawsuit settlement.
The City Council on
Wednesday approved a deal
that will pay a total of
$285,600 to be divided
among the 345 people identi-
fied by the FBI investigation
as victims of Arnesons
record checks, according to
court records.
The victims will divide
the funds according to how
[See Pellicano, B6]
Millennium Partners, which
are each proposing large,
mixed-use developments in
the Bay Area and Los Ange-
les, respectively, are asking
for relief under the Califor-
nia Environmental Quality
Act, commonly known as
CEQA, which forces devel-
opers to disclose and reduce
a projects effects on the en-
vironment. The measure,
Senate Bill 699, would force
Photographs by
ANTHONY PELLICANO paid a Los Angeles Police
Department detective to provide him with confiden-
tial law enforcement records on hundreds of people.
any CEQA lawsuit against a
project to wrap up within
nine months potentially
saving years of costly litiga-
tion.
If it passes both houses of
the Legislature before law-
makers adjourn for the year
Sept. 15, the shortened
court-decision timeline
would be available to any de-
veloper with a project that
costs more than $100 million
Christina House For The Times
due process rights and
George Wilhelm Los Angeles Times
to build, provides union-lev-
el wages for construction
workers and meets strict
targets for greenhouse gas
emissions and renewable
energy. Developers would
apply to the governor, who
would decide whether a
project qualifies for the fast-
er court decision.
In July, Facebook an-
nounced an expansion of its
Menlo Park headquarters to
City leaders
urge L.A. to
label itself a
sanctuary
Council members plan
to unveil a resolution
in response to Trumps
DACA decision.
By Dakota Smith
Los Angeles city leaders
will push Friday to declare
the city a sanctuary for im-
migrants, a move that
comes after some lawmak-
ers resisted formally using
the term despite pressure
from local immigration
groups.
City Council members
Herb Wesson and Gil Cedillo
plan to unveil a resolution
that would formally label
Los Angeles either a city of
sanctuary or a sanctuary
city.
Wesson and Cedillo say
they want stronger protec-
tions for immigrants after
President Trumps decision
this week to scrap the De-
ferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program. DACA,
put in place by President
Obama, shields young peo-
ple who were brought into
the country illegally as mi-
nors from deportation.
A study by the nonparti-
Injunction is
halted amid
ACLU suit
Judge blocks a civil
court order against an
Echo Park man who
denies being in a gang.
By Kate Mather
and James Queally
A federal judge on Thurs-
day temporarily barred Los
Angeles police and prose-
cutors from enforcing a gang
injunction against an Echo
Park man, saying she be-
lieved he would likely prove
his rights were violated
when he was swept up in the
order.
The 29-page order stems
from a lawsuit filed by the
American Civil Liberties
Union and other groups last
year. The suit accuses police
of violating Peter Arellanos
reviewing the judges deci-
those of thousands of other
people by serving them
with gang injunctions with-
out allowing them to first
contest the orders in court.
Arellano, who denies be-
ing in a gang, is likely to es-
tablish that the city did not
provide him with due proc-
ess in enforcing the injunc-
include grocery, retail, office
space and housing, an effort
the company says is needed
to address the states hous-
ing affordability problems as
well as a lack of amenities
surrounding its offices.
Facebook supports ex-
tending the ability of the
governor to ensure timely re-
view of environmentally re-
sponsible projects that cre-
[See Developers, B8]
B
san Migration Policy Insti-
tute found that 1 in 4 DACA
participants lives in Califor-
nia.
A discussion on which
phrase to use will take place
at Fridays meeting, Wesson
said.
Well find out which term
is preferable, Wesson said
Thursday. Is it city of sanc-
tuary, which is what I per-
sonally like? But I dont
know. I havent had a conver-
sation with the other mem-
bers.
Peter Schey, the citys pro
bono advocate and legal ad-
visor on immigration issues,
released a report Thursday
that recommends making
the city a Dreamer Arrest-
Free Zone.
The report suggests Los
Angeles could help reduce
deportation of immigrants
who benefit from the
Obama-era protections,
often called Dreamers, by
ensuring that they have
representation letters
written by attorneys that
spell out their legal rights. A
person with DACA status
would present the letter dur-
ing any contact with U.S.
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents, the
[See Sanctuary, B5]
tion against him, Chief U.S.
District Judge Virginia A.
Phillips wrote. Continued
enforcement of the injunc-
tion is likely to result in irrep-
arable injury.
The case is still winding
its way through court. But
Peter Bibring, a senior staff
attorney with the ACLU of
Southern California, said he
believed the judges decision
was a promising signal of
how it could ultimately be re-
solved.
We dont see any reason
the court will change its
views, he said. Were really
hopeful that the city is going
to recognize that the way it
uses injunctions is unconsti-
tutional and will either radi-
cally rework the way they
use injunctions or abandon
them altogether.
A spokesman for the city
attorneys office said Thurs-
day that officials there were
sion and our options.
In an earlier interview,
Arellano said he has never
been involved with a gang,
but that he and his father
were both served with in-
junctions aimed at curbing
the activities of six street
gangs in 2013. As a result of
[See Injunction, B5]
Benefits seen
in prostate test
An analysis finds PSA
screening reduces the
risk of death for men
ages 55 to 70. B2
Blast rips up
Hyde Park road
The underground
explosion broke up the
road into chunks the
size of furniture. B3
Lottery ...................... B2
B2 F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
B O R D E R WAT C H
Stolen U.S. goods sold in Tijuana
Teams of shoplifters
collected more than
$20 million in luxury
goods, prosecutors say.
KRISTINA DAVIS
SAN DIEGO For at
least the last decade, Ti-
juana vendors put in special
orders for designer mer-
chandise, dispatching
teams of shoplifters to malls
around the U.S. to steal
more than $20 million in loot
that could be resold at lower
prices in Mexico, according
to an indictment unsealed
in San Diego federal court
Wednesday.
The highly organized
shoplifting ring targeted
malls around San Diego
County from Fashion
Valley to Horton Plaza to
Plaza Bonita and as far
away as Washington, Illi-
nois, Oregon and Maryland,
prosecutors said. They used
sophisticated techniques to
lift Louis Vuitton shoes,
Victorias Secret lingerie,
Abercrombie & Fitch cloth-
ing and more.
And sometimes the
thieves used violence
knocking down an infant in
a stroller and breaking a
loss prevention officers arm
to get away with their
crimes, the U.S. attorneys
office in San Diego said.
On Wednesday, more
than 250 law enforcement
officers spread throughout
the county with warrants,
arresting at least 14 people
by the afternoon and
searching three homes in
Lemon Grove, Chula Vista
and San Diego.
A San Diego federal
grand jury indicted 22 peo-
ple in the scheme. Three of
those arrested were already
in custody. Some remain
fugitives.
Agents seized about
$30,000 in cash as well as
SCIENCE FILE
Prostate screening useful after all
New analysis finds
PSA testing for cancer
benefits men between
the ages of 55 and 70.
MELISSA HEALY
After years of growing
doubt about the value of
screening men for prostate
cancer, a new analysis of
existing clinical trial evi-
dence has found that when
men between the ages of 55
and 70 get the prostate-
specific antigen, or PSA,
test, the result is lives saved.
In 2009, a New England
Journal of Medicine editori-
al writer famously called the
debate over PSA testing for
prostate cancer the contro-
versy that refuses to die.
That comment came with
the publication of two clini-
cal trials one conducted
in the United States, the
second in Europe that
drew two contradictory
conclusions on prostate
cancer testing.
The U.S. undertaking,
called the Prostate, Lung,
Colorectal and Ovarian
Cancer Screening (PLCO)
Trial, found that screening
men for prostate cancer
does not save lives. The
European Randomized
Study of Screening for
Prostate Cancer suggested
that screening drove down
the rate of deaths from
prostate cancer by 20%.
In 2012, a federally
funded panel of experts on
preventive care concluded
there are more risks than
benefits to screening Ameri-
can men for prostate cancer
with the PSA test. And in
April 2017, the U.S. Preven-
tive Services Task Force
dumped the decision
squarely into the laps of
patients and their doctors.
Some men between 55 and
69 years of age might well
decide to get their PSA
checked, the task force said.
After hearing the ledger of
pros and cons, however,
others in that age bracket
might just as reasonably
skip the screening test, the
panel concluded.
The new research, pub-
lished Monday in the Annals
of Internal Medicine, now
A SHOPLIFTING ring targeted Horton Plaza, above, and other malls in San Diego County and beyond for a decade, prosecutors say.
about a dozen trash bags
bursting with new clothing
with tags and security devic-
es still attached. Numerous
brands were represented in
the haul, including Guess,
Express, Hollister, Calvin
Klein, Puma, Armani and
Adidas, authorities said.
Piles of new Louis Vuit-
ton shoes, as well as jewelry
and perfume, also were
confiscated.
Sara Portilla, who man-
ages a boutique in Tijuana,
and Maria Angelica Mendez
Valdivia, both San Diegans,
are accused of fencing the
stolen goods in the store
and at Mexican swap meets
with the help of Jose de
Jesus Mora, said David
Shaw, special agent in
charge of Homeland Securi-
HOWARD DUBLIN, 56, takes part in a free screening for prostate cancer. New research concludes that
screening men over age 55 can signicantly reduce the risk for prostate cancer death.
calls those recommenda-
tions into question. The
authors of the study, led by
biostatistician Ruth Etzioni
of Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center in Seattle,
concluded that screening
men over age 55 can signi-
cantly reduce the risk for
prostate cancer death.
When men who fit the
criteria for screening get the
PSA test, the reduction in
deaths due to prostate
cancer was between 25%
and 32%, the new study
found.
But the newly published
analysis also underscores
that the value of prostate
cancer screening rests
heavily on which men you
screen, where and for how
long you conduct the clini-
cal trial, and how you
crunch the numbers.
In the end, said Vander-
bilt University urological
surgeon Dr. Sam Chang, the
new analysis reinforces
what urological surgeons
and treating physicians
have thought all along: that
PSA screening is helpful.
But it is helpful, said
Chang, only when it focuses
on the right men those
between 55 and 70 and
ty Investigations in San
Diego.
At times they would
make specific requests for
special items, such as an
order for Tommy Hilfiger
clothing, or for items not
found in stores in California,
according to the indictment.
The shoplifting crews
were organized by team
leaders, who would scout
stores and choreograph the
heists using cellphones and
hand signals, prosecutors
said. Blockers would
distract store employees or
shield the movements of the
mules, who would use
metallic-lined booster
bags to hide the merchan-
dise and defeat store securi-
ty sensors.
The 38 thefts in the in-
when it is tempered by an
understanding that not all
worrisome findings are
evidence of disease that
should be treated aggres-
sively.
Sometimes, said Chang,
who was not involved in the
newly published article, a
man will get a problematic
PSA test reading and decide
not to act on it immediately
or aggressively. But know-
ing there is a decision to be
made is probably a better
basis for planning than not
knowing, he added.
Over the past five to 10
years, there has been a
better understanding by
everyone about the harms
of over-treatment, Chang
said. You want to avoid
over-diagnosis and over-
treatment.
Chang underscored that
for two groups in particular
African American men
and those with a first-de-
gree relative who died of
prostate cancer knowing
is especially important,
because the risks of aggres-
sive disease in such popula-
tions is much higher than
for others. Neither group
was the subject of special
attention in the newly pub-
dictment occurred from
June 13, 2008, when one
defendant is accused of
trying to drive over an Aber-
crombie & Fitch employee
in National City, to July 27,
when several defendants
stole about $5,500 in mer-
chandise from an Aber-
crombie store in San Diego.
The thieves typically
stole thousands of dollars in
merchandise each time,
including $5,000 from an
American Eagle store in
Visalia, $4,500 from a Victo-
rias Secret in Escondido,
$10,600 from a Tommy Hil-
figer store in San Clemente
and $6,700 from a Las Vegas
Victorias Secret, the indict-
ment says.
Some of the thefts got
physical.
lished analysis.
In an editorial published
alongside the new analysis,
Andrew Vickers of Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center also made clear that
its what patients and their
physicians do after the PSA
test that matters most.
Unfortunately, the way
screening has been imple-
mented in the United States
leaves much to be desired,
Vickers wrote. The contro-
versy about PSA-based
screening should no longer
be whether it can do good
but whether we can change
our behavior so that it does
more good than harm.
Prostate cancer is the
most common nonskin
cancer found in men, affect-
ing 101.6 of 100,000 American
men, according to the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention. In 2013, the
latest year for which figures
are available, 176,000 got a
diagnosis of prostate cancer
and 28,000 died of it.
But a change in a mans
reading on the PSA test is a
highly imperfect gauge of
trouble: About 80% of pos-
itive PSA test results are
thought to produce false-
positives, creating scares
Sergio Manuel Montano
Nava is accused of knocking
over an infant in a stroller
and injuring the father to
flee after stealing merchan-
dise from a Hollister store in
Schaumburg, Ill., in Novem-
ber 2009. Jose Damazo
Herrera, Robin Macias and
others are accused of driv-
ing vehicles through a crowd
in November 2012 during
their getaway from another
Hollister store theft in
Fashion Valley Mall in San
Diego.
In March 2013, a sus-
pected thief grabbed a loss
prevention officer by the
throat and threw her to the
ground while running from
an Abercrombie & Fitch
store at the Plaza Bonita
Mall in National City, prose-
Tom Williams Roll Call Inc.
3 11,142
that prompt men to get
biopsies. And treatment,
which carries with it a high
risk of subsequent difficul-
ties with sexual function,
urination and bowel move-
ments, is often unnecessary
because prostate cancers
are often so slow-growing
they will never make a man
sick.
As a result of this grow-
ing skepticism about whom
to screen for prostate cancer
and whether to treat it,
more and more men are
skipping the PSA test. And
among those who get it and
get back a worrisome find-
ing, fewer and fewer are
opting to treat it.
This year, a long-running
clinical trial found no evi-
dence that patients who got
an early prostate cancer
diagnosis and chose active
surveillance (sometimes
called watchful waiting)
were no more likely to die
of the disease than were
men who got the same
diagnosis and treated it
aggressively.
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@latimes.com
Twitter:
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cutors say.
Others are accused of
intimidating a witness from
talking to law enforcement,
including throwing a rock
through a car window, pros-
ecutors say.
Theyre not just shop-
lifting, Shaw said. Theyre
using violence to get what
they want.
The stolen merchandise
was then sold in Mexico,
prosecutors say. For exam-
ple, in October 2013, Mendez
had more than $482,000 in
merchandise that had been
lifted from at least 57 stores,
bound for south of the bor-
der, the indictment says.
The indictment includes
charges of conspiracy and
receiving and possessing
stolen goods. Seven defend-
ants are also charged with
being in the U.S. illegally.
The mall is supposed to
be a safe place for families to
shop, eat and enjoy them-
selves, acting U.S. Atty.
Alana Robinson said in a
statement. Instead, a
prolific and violent group of
thieves has stolen millions
of dollars in merchandise as
well as peace of mind from
mall employees and cus-
tomers. With todays action,
we are protecting customers
and businesses both phys-
ically and economically, and
we are restoring and pre-
serving the safety of our
community gathering
spots.
kristina.davis
@sduniontribune.com
Davis writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
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UC IRVINE STUDENTS and members of Chabad on Campus dance with musician Rabbi Blue, center, to support a pro-Palestinian cam-
pus group that disrupted a film screening in 2016. The group, Students for Justice in Palestine, was recently punished for a protest in May.
UCI group fights discipline
University punished
students who spoke
out at event featuring
Israeli veterans.
By Hillary Davis
A pro-Palestinian stu-
dent group at UC Irvine is
appealing its punishment in
response to a protest during
an on-campus Israeli veter-
Pickpocketing ruse thats most fowl
By Veronica Rocha
An unexpected sprin-
kling of bird poop may be
considered good luck in
some cultures, but that
wasnt the case for two men
who were intentionally
splashed with a similar sub-
stance recently and then
pickpocketed.
The excremental ruse
was effective enough to
Explosion rips up Hyde Park street
Authorities close road
as they probe the
underground blast. No
injuries are reported.
By Joseph Serna
Utility crews are investi-
gating an underground ex-
plosion that ripped through
a residential street in Hyde
Park and left the roadway lit-
tered with chunks of con-
crete, asphalt and rock.
Residents were advised
Thursday evening to stay in-
side their homes after au-
thorities discovered above
normal levels of natural gas
along Brynhurst Avenue be-
tween 64th Street and Hyde
Park Boulevard.
Im told its not danger-
ous, its to keep people out of
the way right now, said Bri-
an Rankin, a spokesman
with the Los Angeles Fire
Department.
Fire officials, along with
utility crews and police, were
working to resolve the issue,
he said. Brynhurst Avenue
was closed to traffic from
63rd Street to Hyde Park
Boulevard.
The blast was reported in
the 6200 block of South
Brynhurst Avenue about
3:30 p.m. Wednesday and
sparked confusion among
neighbors who werent quite
sure what had happened.
The floor shook. It felt
CITY & STATE
ans panel in May.
University administra-
tors gave the Students for
Justice in Palestine two
years of probation, 12 man-
datory meetings to discuss
free speech and a require-
ment to meet with adminis-
trators two weeks before
hosting any event.
In a statement, repre-
sentatives for the group said
that their clapping and
chanting at the event
sponsored by Students Sup-
prompt Los Angeles police
to issue an alert Wednesday
to Hollywood residents, ad-
vising them to be on the look-
out for two people they think
are responsible for the Aug.
27 thefts.
Although unpleasant,
the trick is simple and plays
to a persons vulnerability
and trust, police said.
The suspects a man
and woman appeared to
have tossed some type of
LOS ANGELES utility workers are investigating an underground explosion that left furniture-size slabs of
concrete strewn about Wednesday. The floor shook. It felt like a mini-earthquake, a resident told KTLA-TV.
like a mini-earthquake, res-
ident Heidi Jimenez told
KTLA-TV Channel 5. It
smelled really bad, like pe-
troleum.
Video of the aftermath re-
corded by a resident showed
smoke or steam rising from a
hole in the ground with
chunks of concrete and as-
phalt strewn over the street.
Cars parked near the blast
porting Israel was in re-
sponse to aggressive behav-
ior by a member of the sol-
diers group.
Its outrageous that the
university is punishing us,
students, instead of protect-
ing us from aggressive for-
eign military agents on cam-
pus, Daniel Carnie, a Jew-
ish UC Irvine student, said
in a statement.
Were a diverse group of
Palestinian, black, Latino
and Jewish students who at-
substance on the victims as
their backs were turned,
LAPD Officer Cesar Corona
said.
The man and woman
then walked up to the vic-
tims, he said, told them they
had bird feces on their backs
and offered to help wipe off
the mess.
While wiping them
down, they distract them,
Corona said.
The diversion worked,
site appeared dented from
debris.
Neighbor Sheri Timmons
said there was a loud boom
and then an odd smell.
They didnt know if it
was a gas explosion. Weve
never had anything like
that, Timmons told KTLA.
The blast lifted 100-
pound manhole covers into
the air and broke up the
tended the soldiers speak-
ing event and asked critical
questions, Carnie said.
Campus police officers
escorted the panelists to the
parking lot after the event.
No arrests were made.
Students for Justice in
Palestine said its members
have been harassed and cy-
ber-bullied since the event;
the group said it has filed a
discrimination complaint.
In May 2016, the group
disrupted the screening of a
and unbeknownst to the vic-
tims, their belongings were
gone, along with the sus-
pects.
They were adamant,
Corona said. It takes awhile
to get the job done.
The man and woman
then were seen entering a ve-
hicle with a getaway driver
behind the wheel.
The thefts occurred
within minutes of each other
near Hollywood Boulevard
street into chunks the size of
furniture. Windows shat-
tered in one SUV parked on
the street. There were no re-
ported injuries.
The Los Angeles Fire De-
partment said the explosion
appeared to be electrical
and requested that the De-
partment of Water and
Power and Southern Califor-
nia Gas Co. investigate.
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film about Israeli soldiers.
UCI administrators later
said the students had vio-
lated conduct policies, and
the group was given a warn-
ing that its behavior was
under increased scrutiny.
Another violation, the
students were told, could
lead to harsher conse-
quences.
hillary.davis@latimes.com
Davis writes for Times
Community News.
and Fairfax Avenue, he said.
A large wallet and a camera
were stolen.
Police dont know
whether the substance
tossed on the victims was ac-
tual bird feces, Corona said,
but whatever it was, it left a
distinct mark.
veronica.rocha
@latimes.com
Twitter:
@VeronicaRochaLA
Inform Inc
On Thursday, the DWP
said it found no evidence
that the explosion was
linked to its electrical equip-
ment but that it would con-
tinue to investigate.
joseph.serna@latimes.com
Twitter: @JosephSerna
Times staff writer Alene
Tchekmedyian contributed
to this report.
B3
Stove
theft
became
murder
Driver who lost load
on freeway convicted
in crash that killed a
sheriffs deputy.
By Alene
Tchekmedyian
A man who was driving a
truckload of stolen appli-
ances when a stove tumbled
off his truck, causing a crash
that claimed the life of
a Los Angeles County sher-
iff s deputy, was convicted
Wednesday of second-
degree murder, officials said.
An Orange County jury
deliberated for several hours
before finding Cole Allen
Wilkins, 41, guilty in the dep-
utys July 2006 death, ac-
cording to the Orange
County district attorneys
office.
Wilkins faces 25 years to
life in state prison and is due
to be sentenced this month.
Dist. Atty. Tony Rack-
auckas said in a statement
that Wilkins deserves to
spend the rest of his life in
prison for murdering a po-
lice officer who was on his
way to serve and protect the
public.
Wilkins attorney could
not immediately be reached
for comment.
Early that July 2006
morning, prosecutors said,
Wilkins stole a shipment of
appliances from a home
under construction in Riv-
erside County.
As he fled, he failed to se-
cure the items, leaving the
tailgate of his pickup truck
down. Soon after, on the 91
Freeway in Anaheim, a full-
size stove fell off the trucks
bed.
David Piquette, a 10-year
veteran of the Sheriff s De-
partment and father of
twins, was driving to work
from his Corona home when
he swerved to avoid hitting
the appliance. He collided
with a cement truck, which
landed on top of his Crown
Victoria and crushed him.
Wilkins did not stop until
a driver behind him flashed
his lights and honked his
horn. When he finally did
stop, prosecutors said, he
gave the man a fake name
and two bogus phone num-
bers. Later, he also gave a
false name to California
Highway Patrol officers in-
vestigating the incident.
Wilkins fought his case
for more than a decade, all
the way to the California
Supreme Court.
At his first trial in 2008, he
was found guilty of first-de-
gree murder, but the state
high court overturned his
conviction on the grounds
that the jury was not proper-
ly instructed.
He had been convicted
under the felony-murder
rule, under which a defend-
ant may be convicted of first-
degree murder if someone
dies while the suspect is
committing a felony, even if
the defendant did not intend
to kill.
A jury convicted Wilkins
because the crash occurred
soon after he had stolen the
household appliances.
But the state high court
overturned the conviction,
saying that if a defendant
had already escaped to a
temporary place of safety,
any death he then causes is
not felony murder.
alene.tchekmedyian
@latimes.com
O.C. district attorneys office
COLE WILKINS fought
his murder case for more
than a decade.
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Judge lets brain-death suit proceed

Ruling sends case of
Jahi McMath to trial
for jury to determine
whether she is alive.
associated press

SAN FRANCISCO A
California judge has ruled
that a teenage girl declared
brain-dead more than three
years ago after a tonsillec-
tomy may still be technically
alive, allowing a malpractice
lawsuit against the hospital
to proceed.
Alameda County Judge
Stephen Pulido ruled Tues-
day that its up to a jury to
determine whether Jahi Mc-
Math is alive, which would
increase the amount of dam-
ages if jurors decide in the
familys favor.
The family is seeking
damages from Childrens
Hospital in Oakland for al-
legedly botching a routine
operation to remove the
girls tonsils in December
2013. The family is also de-
manding a ruling that Jahi is
alive and for the hospital to
pay for her future care. She
was 13 when the operation
was conducted.
Jahi, who has been on life
support since the pro- Ben Margot Associated Press

cedure, was pronounced
dead after the surgery, and
the Alameda County coro-
ner signed a death certifi-
cate in January 2014.
Lawyers for the girl and
her family did not return
messages left Thursday
seeking comment. A lawyer
for the hospital, Thomas
Still, had no immediate com-
ment Wednesday morning
but said he would comment
later.
The case has been at the
center of national debate
over brain death since the
girls mother refused to re-
move her daughter from life
support after doctors de-
clared her dead.
Her mother has previ-
ously acknowledged that
her daughters brain is se-
verely and irreparably dam-
aged. But Latasha Spears
LATASHA SPEARS WINKFIELD , shown in 2013, said that her daughter, Jahi McMath, is still alive and that her Christian faith compels
her fight to keep Jahi on life support despite a declaration of brain death. Winkfield has released videos of Jahis fingers twitching.
Winkfield said that her
daughter is still alive and
that her Christian belief
compels her fight to keep her
daughter on life support.
Winkfield has released vi-
deo clips of Jahis fingers
twitching.
Several doctors, includ-
ing two hired by an Alameda
County court, have said
brain-dead patients can still
twitch and move slightly.
After a judge ruled that
California doctors could re-
move the girl from life sup-
port, her mother took Jahi to
New Jersey, the only U.S.
state that accommodates
McMath family and Omari Sealey religions that do not recog-
JAHI McMATH has been on life support since a 2013 nize brain death.
tonsillectomy. In court documents, a UCLA neurolo- She is on life support in a
gist said videos of Jahi show that the teen is alive. New Jersey apartment,
where she receives medical
care.
Court records show that
New Jersey Medicaid has
picked up some of the girls
healthcare costs. The family
has also received financial
contributions from an online
fundraising campaign.
In ordering the case to
trial, Pulido relied on the tes-
timony of a well-known critic
of diagnosing brain death,
Dr. Alan Shewmon.
In court documents filed
in July, the retired UCLA
neurologist said videos re-
corded by Jahis family from
2014 to 2016 showed the teen
was still alive.
The images, some made
public by the girls relatives,
show Jahi twitching her fin-
gers and reacting to odors
that Shewmon and her rela-
tives said were noxious with-
out providing more specif-
ics. Shewmon said Jahis
body has not deteriorated as
expected.
A doctor who examines
the girl every three months
for the family has testified
that Jahi reached puberty
and menstruated while in
New Jersey.
Shewmon said Jahi is in a
minimally responsive
state.
Hospital lawyers have ar-
gued that the family has not
subjected Jahi to tests ac-
cepted by the American
Medical Assn. to determine
whether someone is brain-
dead.

Woman helped
spouse, son kill
lover, police say
Three arrested in the
ambush and shooting
of a 25-year-old in
Santa Rosa.
By Veronica Rocha
A Northern California
woman, her husband and
son were arrested Saturday
in connection with the death
of her lover after the men dis-
covered the affair, author-
ities said.
Maria Guadalupe Torres,
Kristina Davis San Diego Union-Tribune her husband, Rene Es-
MEXICAN AMERICAN mariachi singer Pepe Aguilar, center, speaks to reporters outside a federal court- pinoza Martinez Sr., and her
house in San Diego after his son was sentenced Tuesday to time served along with three years of probation. son, Rene Espinoza Mar-
tinez Jr., are being held with-
block of Porter Creek Road.
As Torres got out of the
vehicle, authorities said, her
husband and son pulled up
in a car next to the van and
fired shots into the drivers
side.
Botello-Arreola was
struck but managed to es-
cape through the passenger
door. He ran to a nearby rav-
ine and fell, officials said.
Hours later, the Califor-
nia Highway Patrol notified
the sheriff s office that they
had found a vehicle littered
with bullet holes and blood
at Porter Creek Road.
When deputies arrived,
they found the Toyota mini-
van, with its windows shot
out. While searching the

Singers son is sentenced

Jose Aguilar receives
probation for trying to
smuggle four Chinese
immigrants into U.S.
By Kristina Davis
SAN DIEGO The son
of Mexican American maria-
chi singer Pepe Aguilar,
charged in March with try-
ing to smuggle four Chinese
immigrants into the United
States in his car trunk, was
sentenced to time served
Tuesday.
Jose Emiliano Aguilar,
24, spent18 days in jail before
being released on bond. U.S.
District Judge Anthony
Battaglia sentenced him to
three years of probation, in-
cluding the first six months
under home detention in a
sober-living facility.
Several friends and fam-
ily attended the hearing, in-
cluding Aguilars father.
A U.S. citizen, Aguilar
was living in Mexico when he
was presented an opportu-
nity to make money by
smuggling the immigrants,
defense lawyer Jeremy War-
ren said.
Aguilar and a female pas-
senger drove to the San
Ysidro Port of Entry, and an
officers dog reacted to the
trunk of the Chrysler 200, ac-
cording to the complaint.
Four Chinese people were
found inside. They admitted
to paying between $3,000
and $60,000 to be smuggled,
the complaint said.
Aguilar pleaded guilty to
a count of bringing in an un-
authorized immigrant.
Aguilar suffers from
mental health issues and
was using marijuana at the
time to self-medicate, War-
ren said.
The lawyer said the sen-
tence was appropriate.
Judge Battaglia did
what was right, he looked
past him being the son of a
famous musician and saw a
troubled kid who has done
everything in the last five
months to fix his life, War-
ren said.
kristina.davis
@sduniontribune.com
Davis writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune
out bail on suspicion of mur-
der and conspiracy to com-
mit a crime, according to the
Sonoma County Sheriff s
Office.
Torres and the victim,
Antonio Botello-Arreola,
had been involved in a long-
term romantic relationship,
said sheriff s spokesman
Sgt. Spencer Crum.
That was until her 20-
year-old son and 40-year-old
husband became aware of
the affair recently and
didnt approve, Crum said.
The four found them-
selves on the same Santa
Rosa road early Sept. 1.
Botello-Arreola, 25, and
Torres, 40, had been driving
in a Toyota Previa minivan
when they pulled over onto a
dirt turnout in the 4500
area, they found Botello-
Arreola dead in the ravine.
Detectives also found evi-
dence inside the minivan
that led them to a motel in
Santa Rosa.
At the motel, Crum said,
detectives gathered check-
in information and surveil-
lance video that linked Tor-
res to Botello-Arreola.
The next day, detectives
arrested Torres, her hus-
band and son in Lake
County.
All three of the family
members acted in concert in
the homicide, the sheriff s
office said in a statement.
veronica.rocha
@latimes.com
Twitter:
@VeronicaRochaLA

If L.A. Olympics bid exceeds budget, state could help cover cost
By Liam Dillon
SACRAMENTO State
lawmakers would provide up
to $270 million in guarantees
under legislation unveiled
last week should Los Ange-
les 2028 Olympic bid go over
budget.
The measure, AB 132,
aims to fulfill a promise from
Assembly Speaker Anthony
Rendon (D-Paramount)
and Senate President
Pro Tem Kevin de Len
(D-Los Angeles) to give
state support for the
Olympic bid.
Costs were the major
concern when the Los Ange-
les City Council approved
the 2028 bid last month.
The 2028 Summer
Games are expected to have
a $5.3-billion price tag,
and organizers believe cor-
porate sponsorships, ticket
sales and other revenue
sources could cover ex-
penses.
City officials and bid or-
ganizers had asked the state
to step in if the Games have a
budget shortfall.
Last year, state lawmak-
ers overwhelmingly ap-
proved a similar measure,
but it covered only a poten-
tial 2024 Olympic bid, so new
legislation was needed.
Los Angeles agreed to
host the 2028 Games as part
of a deal that awarded the
2024 Games to Paris.
Under AB 132, the states
financial guarantee is
$20 million more than prom-
ised in last years legislation,
an increase that accounts
for inflation, said Jeff Mill-
man, a spokesman for the
bid committee, LA 28.
This is an LA 28 priority,
and we welcome the Legisla-
tures consideration during
this session, Millman said.
Lawmakers will have to
work quickly to pass the
measure this year. The dead-
line for bills to pass both
houses of the Legislature is
Sept. 15.
liam.dillon@latimes.com
Twitter: @dillonliam
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City leaders vouch for sanctuary
[Sanctuary, from B1]
report says.
The report also recom-
mends that the city provide
funding and resources so
those individuals detained
by ICE are assured legal rep-
resentation. It also suggests
creating a local Human
Rights Ordinance to ensure
that immigrants legal rights
are protected. The report
does not estimate a cost to
the city for such services.
Tessie Borden, a member
of the progressive group In-
divisible Highland Park,
said she wanted the city to
provide more protections for
immigrants, and was less
concerned about the sanc-
tuary label.
Special Order 40, which
bars LAPD officers from
contacting someone solely
to determine their immigra-
tion status, doesnt go far
enough in protecting immi-
grants, Borden said.
We want no cooperation
between local law enforce-
ment and ICE over immigra-
tion, Borden said. We want
no sharing of information.
Mayor Eric Garcetti, a
forceful immigrant rights
advocate in Los Angeles, has
resisted using the phrase
sanctuary city because he
says it doesnt accurately de-
scribe the citys policies.
Wesson said he hadnt
talked to the mayor about
the term. Asked for
Garcettis reaction to the
council members resolu-
tion, mayoral spokesman Al-
ex Comisar called L.A. a na-
tional leader in protecting
our immigrant communi-
ties but did not address the
proposed sanctuary label.
There is no neat defini-
tion of a sanctuary city, but
in general, cities that use the
name seek to offer political
support or practical protec-
tions to people who are in
the country illegally. For
some cities, the sanctuary
movement consists simply
of encouraging people with-
out legal status to get more
involved in government.
Other places, including
San Francisco, adopt far-re-
aching policies, such as tak-
ing steps to cut ties with fed-
eral immigration officials
and refusing to fully cooper-
ate with them.
San Francisco declared
itself a sanctuary city in 1989,
and city officials strength-
ened the stance in 2013 with
its Due Process for All or-
Man jailed in brutal hatchet attack
By Alene
Tchekmedyian
and Veronica Rocha
When the shopper saw a
homeless man trying to steal
food from a 7-Eleven, police
say, he offered to pay for the
items.
Moments later, the man
attacked the customer with
a double-edged hatchet, au-
thorities said, crushing part
of his skull and severely lac-
erating his hand.
Dramatic surveillance
footage captured the attack,
which occurred early Sat-
urday morning outside a 7-
Eleven in West Hollywood.
Judge blocks gang injunction amid lawsuit
[Injunction, from B1]
the court order, Arellano
said he cant even go out to
dinner with relatives with-
out risking arrest.
The injunctions, used by
the city since the late 1980s,
are civil court orders that
bar suspected gang mem-
bers from engaging in cer-
tain activities in areas where
the gang is known to congre-
gate. People subject to in-
junctions are generally pro-
hibited from wearing cloth-
ing that police believe high-
lights gang affiliation within
the designated areas and
from socializing with other
alleged gang members in
public, including family
members.
Those who violate injunc-
tions can be charged with
contempt and face up to six
months in jail.
In its lawsuit, the ACLU
criticized the methods by
which the city obtains the in-
junctions and what it called
a painstakingly slow relief
process for those who say
they have been wrongfully
labeled as gang members.
City officials usually name a
gang faction, rather than in-
EDWIN HERNANDEZ , 18, a U.S. citizen whose sister benefits from Obama-era protections for young immigrants brought to the U.S.
illegally, protests in L.A. against President Trumps decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
L.A. COUNCILMAN Gil Cedillo, above, and Council President Herb Wesson say
Trumps decision to end DACA spurred their push for a sanctuary city label.
On Tuesday night, the
Los Angeles County Sher-
iff s Department said it had
located the attacker.
Kisu Brown was taken
into custody just after 9:30
p.m. near Fairfax Avenue
and Santa Monica Boule-
vard, the Sheriff s Depart-
ment said.
Brown, a 41-year-old tran-
sient known to frequent Hol-
lywood and West Hollywood,
is being held in lieu of
$500,000 bail.
The attack occurred
shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday
outside a 7-Eleven in West
Hollywood, when the shop-
per saw Brown trying to
steal food and offered to pay
IN A LAWSUIT, the American Civil Liberties Union claims that gang injunctions have violated the due proc-
ess rights of thousands of people. Above, Los Angeles police officers prepare to serve notice of an injunction.
for the items, deputies said.
But Brown became upset
and refused the offer. A brief
struggle ensued between the
pair in the store, located in
the 7900 block of Santa
Monica Boulevard.
Brown left, and the vic-
tim walked out the door be-
hind him, deputies said. In
seconds, authorities said,
Brown pulled out a small,
double-edged hatchet con-
cealed in his clothing and
struck the victim, knocking
him to the ground.
Deputies said Brown hit
the mans head with the
hatchet several times before
walking off and fleeing north
on Hayworth Avenue.
cooperation
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
was considering the sanctu-
Part of the victims skull
was crushed, and his hand
was severely cut. He was
hospitalized in critical but
stable condition.
What you think youre
doing is a nice and generous
thing, and somebody just
takes it out on you like this.
[Its] incomprehensible,
Sgt. Jeff Bishop said. Very
unfortunate.
Brown has prior convic-
tions, including assault with
a deadly weapon, Bishop
said.
alene.tchekmedyian
@latimes.com
veronica.rocha
@latimes.com
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We want no
between local
law enforcement
and ICE over
immigration.
Tessie Borden,
L.A. activist seeking greater
protections for immigrants
dinance. The law declared
local authorities could not
hold immigrants for immi-
gration officials if they had
no violent felonies on their
records and did not cur-
rently face charges.
The Republican Party of
L.A. County said in a state-
ment that it was disap-
pointed that the council
dakota.smith@latimes.com
KISU BROWN is suspected of attacking a man who
tried to buy him food at a West Hollywood 7-Eleven.
closed number of people
Rick Loomis Los Angeles Times
B5
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
ary label.
While we have compas-
sion for all hard-working
residents in our community,
as a party we believe in fol-
lowing the law, the state-
ment said, and thus cannot
support the idea of sanctu-
ary cities especially when
some major crimes against
our citizens are committed
by those who are in our
country illegally.
California officials last
month sued the Trump ad-
ministration, alleging fed-
eral threats to withhold
funding from sanctuary cit-
ies are unconstitutional and
violate the rights of resi-
dents. In his report, Schey
writes that Trumps threat
to penalize sanctuary cities
has no basis in law and is
primarily intended to dazzle
his base and intimidate local
officials.
Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department
dividual gang members,
when seeking an injunction,
according to the suit. That
creates a situation in which
the city typically obtains the
injunction during an uncon-
tested court proceeding, the
ACLU said.
There are signs, however,
that the process might
change.
In a court filing this sum-
mer, Deputy City Atty. Patri-
cia Ursea acknowledged the
city was planning to alter its
policies. People subject to
injunctions will have at least
30 days to challenge them in
state court or through a
separate removal process
set up by the city before the
orders become enforceable,
according to the filing.
The city is also going to
revise its criteria for remov-
ing people from injunctions,
which had come under criti-
cism from the ACLU and
other activists, and has con-
sidered releasing an undis-
from current injunctions, ac-
cording to the filing.
kate.mather@latimes.com
james.queally@latimes.com
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Women organize for bail reform
[Bail reform, from B1]
grandmothers home in
Venice. And she wanted to
find a more meaningful way
to help, she said.
So she founded the Essie
Justice Group, a support
network for women whose
loved ones are in prison. The
organization has been one of
several civil rights and advo-
cacy nonprofits that have
pushed a hotly debated
state legislative package to
overhaul how courts grant
offenders bail before trial in
California. After one those
bills stalled in the Assembly,
Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday
delayed action on a second,
identical bill until next year,
but pledged to continue
working on the issue with
members from all three
branches of government.
Until then, at group ses-
sions in Los Angeles and the
Bay Area, the nonprofit is
continuing to train its mem-
bers to share their personal
experiences with incarcera-
tion and bail. They hope to
persuade lawmakers to op-
pose a cash bail system they
say adversely and dispro-
portionately affects black
women and Latinas.
As California has grap-
pled to reduce its prison
population, a network of
foundations and grass-roots
organizations has emerged
to push for changes on crime
and imprisonment. Many,
like Essie Justice, are
putting the people they be-
lieve are most affected by
sentencing policies at the
center of political debate.
In Sacramento, former
youth offenders are holding
news conferences and testi-
fying before legislative
committees in support of
bills that would ease punish-
ment for juveniles and en-
sure their rights are pro-
tected during arrests. And
former inmates are serving
on a state board tasked with
awarding grants to counties
and cities for rehabilitation
programs.
Essie Justice is focused
on challenging the bail in-
dustry, which is valued at
$2 billion and has spent
more than $170,000 on lobby-
ing efforts this fiscal year to
oppose changes to the
states bail system, accord-
ing to state finance reports.
The pending legislative
package would require
courts to move away from
fixed fees and assess offend-
ers based on the threats they
pose to communities.
But bail agents and lob-
byists who oppose the bills
say the real drivers behind
the calls for change are ma-
jor philanthropic organiza-
tions and donors to criminal
justice advocacy nonprofits
including New York billion-
aire financier George Soros.
They say the proposals are
half-cooked, could cost
counties millions of dollars
and would hurt small and
family-owned businesses.
The confrontations at
the state Capitol have been
tense, with bail agents and
Essie Justice members
packing legislative meetings
and clashing in the hallways.
Clayton said her group
wont budge. We are in this
for as long as it will take, she
said.
Clayton named the Essie
Justice Group after her
great-grandmother, Essie
Bailey, who arrived in Los
Angeles in the late 1930s to
escape Louisianas Jim
Crow segregation laws. Clay-
ton said her great-grand-
parents had to give up their
sharecropping farm when
the postman refused to de-
liver the deed to the land.
The land loss has been
huge for many black fam-
ilies, she said. When we
talk about the bail cam-
paign, and how many wom-
en are putting their homes
up for collateral and then
losing them, it is a straight
line for me to this.
When a person is ar-
rested or booked into jail, a
court usually sets a bail
amount according to fixed
fee schedules that vary
widely by county. Offenders
must post the amount up
front or pay a 10% fee to a
bond company before they
are released. Those who
cant afford to do so may re-
main incarcerated up to an
additional 48 hours before
they are formally charged
and arraigned.
Clayton spent a year
studying the impact of the
bail system on poor women
and families in California.
She initially sought to start a
nonprofit bond company,
with low fees that could be
poured back into social serv-
ices for women. But she did
not want to create a market
alternative, she said.
She wanted to upend the
system, she said. She real-
I WANTED to know what mass incarceration was doing to women in this country, said Essie Justice Group founder Gina Clayton, right.
THE ESSIE Justice Group is named for Essie Bailey, mother of Velma Halliburton, above, and great-grand-
mother of Clayton. Bailey arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s to escape Louisianas Jim Crow segregation laws.
ized the women who dealt
with its consequences knew
it better than anyone else
and should be the ones envi-
sioning new approaches to
crime and public safety.
Clayton founded Essie
Justice Group in late 2014,
with the help of a Soros fel-
lowship. The organization is
based on the principle that
developing strong bonds
among women, or building
sisterhood, can serve as a
social justice strategy to em-
power female leaders.
Mass incarceration has
isolated millions of women,
Clayton said. Women who
look just like my grandmoth-
er and my great-grand-
mother and who face very
similar challenges, but who
also have so much of the
same reserves of strength,
same wisdom, same inher-
ent dedication to family.
Qualities, she said, that
make successful organizers.
On a sweltering June
afternoon, more than a doz-
en Essie Justice sisters, as
the group calls its members,
settled into plastic chairs in
a bungalow at St. Elmo Vil-
lage, a Los Angeles art com-
munity lined with succulent
gardens and multicolored
sidewalks.
At these sessions, the
group provides free child
care and dinner. The room is
a space where members say
they feel comfortable
enough to talk about painful
issues they often dont share
even with those they are
closest to.
Among the participants
were Mercedes Brown,
whose brother had been in
prison for 43 years; group
leader Anita Willis, whose
son is serving 40 years for
second-degree murder; and
Khadijah Shabazz, whose
two late husbands both
served time in prison.
Everyone focuses on the
person incarcerated and not
our needs, Shabazz said. I
didnt know I had so much
baggage until we started
talking. I found out there
was a need of a healing.
Their conversations al-
low them to discuss their
fears. They talk about con-
cerns over racial profiling by
police and the challenges of
having loved ones behind
bars, including the difficul-
ties of visiting them in prison
and serving as the sole head
of their household.
But while the meetings
help provide group therapy,
Clayton said they also train
women to become leaders
who meet with district rep-
resentatives, speak at public
forums and advocate for
state legislation and initia-
tives. Some members first
jumped into community or-
ganizing to support Pro-
position 47, the 2014 ballot
measure that has reduced
some theft and drug crimes
to misdemeanors.
This year, their talks have
centered on bail reform.
The bills, written by As-
semblyman Rob Bonta (D-
Alameda) and state Sen.
Bob Hertzberg (D-Van
Nuys), would eliminate the
use of bail fee systems and
require counties to establish
their own pretrial services
agencies, which ensure de-
fendants make their court
dates and prepare cases for
trial. The agencies would de-
velop risk-assessment
tools, or model analyses to attorney and a phone com-
evaluate people booked into
jail based on the threats they
pose to public safety and
their likelihood to come
back to court.
The latest amendments
to the bills included a two-
year phase-in to allow coun-
ties more time to plan and
manage their funding.
To raise support for the
legislation, Essie Justice
members have hosted news
conferences, met with law-
makers and partnered with
a national campaign to raise
$60,000 to bail two women
out of Los Angeles County
Jail on Mothers Day.
But some police and
prosecutors say they still
have concerns about the
burden it will place on their
agencies to implement bail
reform, and Essie Justice
members are coming head
to head with bail agents
whose lobbying efforts have
helped kill similar legisla-
tion in the past.
This year, bail agents
have handed out fliers point-
ing to what they say have
been failures of similar re-
form efforts in New Jersey.
Among the most vocal
opponents have been celeb-
rity bounty hunters Beth
and Duane Dog Chapman,
who argue that the legisla-
tion could set free dangerous
criminals.
The jails are not full of
Suit over Pellicano ends
[Pellicano, from B1]
many times Arneson access-
ed their records on Pelli-
canos behalf. An additional
amount of up to $575,000 will
be paid to the lawyers repre-
senting the class.
A spokesman for the Los
Angeles city attorneys office
said he could not discuss the
settlement until it is final-
ized by the court.
The class-action suit was
one of several delayed for
years as Pellicano, Arneson,
a prominent entertainment
pany engineer were tried
and convicted of federal
crimes connected to the
work of the private investi-
gator.
Lawyers for the class-ac-
tion suit argued that the city
was liable for the invasion of
privacy against the victims
and negligent supervision of
the detective.
Among the named plain-
tiffs was Monika Zsibrita,
who had demanded money
from comedian Chris Rock,
saying he was the father of
her child. (He wasnt.) Rock
hired Pellicano to investi-
gate.
The city attorney argued
that the lawsuit should be
thrown out, saying Ar-
nesons actions in accessing
confidential law enforce-
ment information did not
further police business. But
a judge rejected the argu-
ment.
The plaintiffs attorneys
did not return messages for
comment.
The investigation into
Pellicano began in 2002,
when reporter Anita Buschs
Photographs by
minorities who cant get
out, he testified in April at a
legislative committee meet-
ing. Because guess what?
The bail bondsmen will get
together and get them out.
All this bail bill will do is put
burden on police and sher-
iffs.
Brian Vander Brug Los Angeles Times
LAPD Sgt. Mark Arneson was convicted of running a
criminal enterprise and sentenced to about 10 years.
car was vandalized and the
threat left on her windshield.
FBI agents followed the trail
to Pellicanos offices, where
they found explosives and
evidence leading them to
discover numerous illegally
wiretapped phone conversa-
tions and tapes of Pellicano
talking with his clients
about wiretaps.
Pellicano was accused of
bribing police officers to
search law enforcement
databases and bribing
phone company workers to
L AT I M E S . C O M
Christina House For The Times
Some of the women with
Essie Justice said they have
been unprepared for the lev-
el of animosity they have re-
ceived in Sacramento. Willis,
who went through a six-
week training course and be-
came a co-facilitator who
can help lead group ses-
sions, said the constant
clashes have made her more
determined to share other
womens experiences with
the bail system.
The courts are saying,
You are not getting out of
here we are going to use
the bail system to keep you
in here, Willis said. That
needs to change.
At Claytons grandmoth-
ers home in Venice, the
place she sees as her familys
foundation and where her
parents were married under
a plum tree in the backyard,
she said she gets her resolve
from stories about her great-
grandmother.
Essie Bailey raised three
children and took on jobs as
a domestic worker, a caterer
and an aircraft factory
worker before she owned
three rental properties in
Los Angeles.
When Clayton asked how
her great-grandmother
could accomplish every-
thing she did, her grand-
mother, Velma Halliburton,
had a simple answer.
Baby, she had sisters.
jazmine.ulloa@latimes.com
Twitter: @jazmineulloa
wiretap his clients oppo-
nents, allowing him to listen
to their most intimate con-
versations.
Pellicano was sentenced
to15 years in prison for illegal
wiretaps and running a
criminal enterprise. Arne-
son, who also was convicted
of running a criminal enter-
prise, was sentenced to
about 10 years.
richard.winton
@latimes.com
Twitter: @lacrimes
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OBITUARIES
GENE MICHAEL

Built Yankees into a powerhouse

manager. Brian Cashman Spending much of the
associated press
went on to become general year in Florida, where he

G
ene Michael, the
slick-fielding
shortstop nick-
named Stick
who went on to
manage the New York Yan-
kees and then as an execu-
tive built a powerhouse that
won four World Series in five
years, died Thursday. He
was 79.
Michael had a heart
attack and died at his home
in Oldsmar, Fla., said his
wife, Joette.
At 6-foot-2 and about 180
pounds in his playing days,
Michael hit just .229 with 15
home runs in 10 big league
seasons, seven with the
Yankees from 1968 to 74 in
one of the worst eras in team
history. He was known for
pulling off the hidden ball
trick, which he was said to
have done five times.
He made a far bigger
impact during two terms as
manager, two as general
manager and then as a
special advisor relied on by
Brian Cashman, the teams
GM since 1998. He also
managed the Chicago Cubs
for two seasons.
A Yankees lifer, Michael
maintained durability dur-
ing owner George Stein-
brenners decades of tu-
mult. During his second
term as general manager,
Michael put together the
core of a roster that won
World Series titles in 1996
and from 1998 to 2000.
He was able to project
so well what players would
become, and he did it
through sitting and watch-
ing with his eyes, Yankees
manager Joe Girardi said.
He just had a great feel for
the game.
After watching the Yan-
kees fall short in the 1980s
CUSTOMS OFFICERS found three deadly king cobra snakes hidden in potato chip cans being shipped to a
Monterey Park home in March. Rodrigo Franco faces 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
A GREAT FEEL FOR THE GAME
Gene Michael was a shortstop who later managed the Yankees and became a
team executive. Above, Michael, left, with owner George Steinbrenner in 1981.
with high-priced free er, Jeter said in a state-
agents, Michael preached ment.
patience with youth and Michael gave Buck
nurtured Derek Jeter, Showalter his first major
Bernie Williams and other league managing job.
prospects. He installed an Showalter, now Baltimores
organization philosophy of manager, called Michael
patience at the plate to run blatantly honest and the
up pitch counts. best baseball guy that I
Gene Michael was not ever saw.
only largely responsible for Showalter also said
the success of the Yankees Michael never missed on
organization, but also for an infielder.
my development as a play- Jeter had made like
manager for two decades.
Michael quit as general
manager after the 1995
season and became a key
advisor.
Stick was a pillar of this
organization for decades,
Yankees owner Hal Stein-
brenner said in a statement.
He knew the game of base-
ball like few others did, and
was always willing and
excited to talk about it with
anyone in earshot. His
contributions to the Yan-
kees over the years have
been immeasurable.
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BROWN, Howard A.
June 4, 1927 - August 15, 2017
Howard Albert Brown
died on August 15, 2017.
His most closely held
secret was his age; he
was 91 years old when he passed. He
was born on June 4, 1926 in Venice
Kathy Willens Associated Press Beach, CA. He lived across Southern
CA settling in Pacific Palisades and
Westwood for the last 40 years of his
life.
Howards first job was at his fathers
gas station, until he volunteered to join
the United States Navy during WWII.
He served as a medical corpsman for
40-some errors, but he tells the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton,
me this guy is going to be an
CA. After the war he used the GI Bill
All-Star shortstop. He said and earned a BA in Accounting from
hes got a little footwork Northwestern College. He worked as
issue, Showalter recalled. an accountant and tax preparer for
How do you project those 65 years. After working for the Bing
Company as a manager for many years
things and stand by them? he established his own practice in 1975
Michael also acquired and maintained that practice until May
key veterans who contrib- 2017. He thoroughly enjoyed helping
uted to the 1996 title, includ- people with their tax issues.
ing Paul ONeill, Jimmy Key, He was predeceased by the love
of his life, Peggy Ann and his parents
Wade Boggs and David Howard and Eva Brown. He is survived
Cone. He promoted a young by his three sons: Gregory, Timothy
staffer to assistant general (Linda), and Daniel; his grandchildren
Danielle, Jeffrey, and Stephen; his
great-grandchildren Christina,
Nathaniel and Katie; and his great-
great-grandson Malichi.
The family asks for no flowers or
donations but that your memory of
Howard last in your hearts. Private
Services will be held in Newport Beach
on September 9th.
HEPPS , Richard Norman
Born in Pitt. PA, and received his
pharmacy degree from Dusquene
University in PA. He was a Korean vet
and had pharmacies on the west side
of Los Angelas for forty years. He
leaves his wife of 58 years, Nadine,
his son Kenneth, his daughter Debra
(Micheal McKee), and grandchildren
Ali, Megan, and Zachary. Services
at Hillside Memorial Park Sunday
September 10th at 11 AM.
IKEDA, Takamichi Tak
July 7, 1928 - August 23, 2017
Takamichi Tak Ikeda died
peacefully of natural causes at home in
La Habra. Tak was born in Kobe, Japan,
to Hakushi and Teruka Ikeda. He was
predeceased in July 2011 by his wife of
54 years, Chizuko, and his son Michael
in February 1994. Tak is survived by
sons Steven (Pam) and Dr. Eric (Pearl);
grandchildren Alexander, Emily, Jeffrey
and Jennifer; brother Kenji (Ikuko);
sister-in-law Motoko Ikeda; and many
nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held
at 2:30 p.m., September 10 at the
Anaheim Free Methodist Church, 1001
N. Mayflower St., Anaheim.
RHEE , Kaplan
Kaplan, Rhee 12/12/13- 9/6/17
Lived large and embraced life to the
fullest, enjoying every day up until her
passing at the age of 103. She brought
a smile to the face of everyone she
met, and will be greatly missed by
U.S. Fish and Wildlife her loving family. She will be laid to
rest next to her husband of 68 years,
Sol Kaplan, at 11:30am, Sunday
September 10, 2017
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
often played golf, Michael
served as vice president of
major league scouting from
1996 to 2002. He then be-
came vice president and
advisor until 2006, when his
title changed to vice presi-
dent and senior advisor.
The Yankees will wear
black armbands on their
jerseys for the rest of this
season.
In addition to his wife,
Michael is survived by sons
Mark and Matthew and
daughters Sandra and
Haley.
ZONSHINE, Donald
Our beloved Donald passed away
peacefully on August 28th after a
valiant but brief struggle against a
cancerous brain tumor. Don was born
April 23, 1927 to Minnie and Henry
Zonshine. He was raised in Burbank,
California, attending elementary,
middle and high school there. Don
had a desire to pursue a career in
architecture, but ended up overseeing
the family businesses, Henrys Bar
and Henrys Liquor. He later opened
two cocktail lounges, The Buccaneer
and The Cavalier, before developing
a very successful real estate career
with childhood friend Howard Tanner.
Don married May Boss in 1950 and
shortly thereafter adopted her son
Clay. Some years later, Don married
Dixie Lee Singer. Dixies two children,
Janet and Steve, became his children.
Later, Janet married Steve Galletly. Don
became a grandfather when Jan and
Steve blessed him with two wonderful
boys, Nicholas and Alexander. Sadly,
Dixie passed away 12 years ago after
35 years of marriage. Years later, Don
was introduced to Joanne Geller.
She became his life partner and
friend, along with her loving family.
Don and Joanne shared nearly six
years together, traveling on special
occasions with family. Their many
trips together and interesting cultural
events enhanced their lives. Don had
many wonderful achievements in
his life: spending years in the Boy
Scouts, developing innovative bar and
restaurant strategies and successfully
developing several real estate
properties. But most notably, Don was
an extremely charitable and generous
man. He was a very giving, loving and
supportive man who will be greatly
missed by all who had the privilege of
knowing him and being a part of his
life. Don is survived by his sister Shirley
(Stu), brother Robert (Betty), nephews
Michael (Rachel) and David, niece
Sheri (Brook), great nephews Hunter
and Zachary, daughter Janet (Steve),
grandsons Nicholas and Alexander, son
Clay, granddaughter Natalie, Joanne
Geller and family, cousin Meredith
(Andrew) and numerous cousins and
friends. A memorial service will be
held on Sunday, September 10, 2:00
PM, at Mount Sinai Memorial Park,
5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles,
CA. In lieu of flowers, the family
requests that donations be made to
City of Hope, in the memory of Donald
and Dixie Zonshine.
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Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
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Rita Gay Eshuis

He pleads guilty after
federal agents find
several protected
species in his home.
By Alene
Tchekmedyian
A Monterey Park man
pleaded guilty Thursday to
animal smuggling after cus-
toms officers discovered
three deadly king cobra
snakes hidden in potato chip
cans in a package shipped to
his home, officials said.
Rodrigo Franco, 34, ad-
mitted to smuggling more
than 20 cobras which sell
on the black market for
about $2,000 each in at
least three shipments, ac-
cording to a plea agreement
filed in U.S. District Court.
In exchange for one ship-
ment, Franco sent a package
to Hong Kong with six pro-
tected turtles.
He faces 20 years in fed-
eral prison, three years of su-
pervised release and a
$250,000 fine. He is due to be
sentenced in December.
For months, prosecutors
said, Franco used What-
sApp, a smartphone mes-
saging platform, to negoti-
ate shipments of snakes and
turtles to and from Hong
Kong.
King cobras can be
brought into the U.S. only
with an export or re-export
certificate from the country
of origin and a declaration
filed with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. But neither
Franco nor the seller filed
any of the required docu-
ments.
In March, authorities in-
tercepted the package with
the three deadly snakes
along with three albino Chi-
nese soft-shelled turtles.
That same day, Franco had
attempted to mail six other
protected turtles wrapped
in socks to Hong Kong. That
package also was inter-
cepted.
The next day, a postal
worker with federal
agents close behind deliv-
ered the package with the
turtles shipped from Hong
Kong to Francos Monterey
Park home. Authorities had
removed the cobras from the
package because delivering
them posed a safety risk.
After the package was ac-
cepted, federal agents ap-
proached with a warrant to
search the home.
Inside a childrens bed-
room in the home, according
to federal court records,
they found a glass tank with
a young crocodile, diamond-
back terrapins, mud turtles
and alligator snapping tur-
tles all of which are pro-
tected species.
alene.tchekmedyian
@latimes.com
Twitter: @AleneTchek
March 15, 1933 - August 24, 2017
Rita Eshuis passed away Thursday at
the age of 84. Rita, a longtime resident
of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born and
raised in Paw Paw, Michigan, where
she lived on Eagle Lake. She graduated from
Michigan State University with a degree in
education and taught for over 25 years in the
Kalamazoo Public Schools system. Her greatest
passions in life were education and making a
difference in her students lives; her love for her
children and grandchildren and her love for
animals--especially cats. Even after retirement,
Rita continued teaching, helping older students
learn to read. If you happened to see a woman
walking a cat on a leash that may have been Rita
and her last cat--Kitty.
Rita was preceded in death by her parents,
Anthony and Luicille. She is survived by her sister,
Laverne and her nieces and nephews, Delia,
Chris, Kim and Jay, and her two children and
daughter-in-law Penny, Eric and Gina, and her four
grandchildren Emily, Max, Lulu and Franny.
There will be a brief service on Sunday,
September 10, 2017. Please meet at the Knob
Hill Stairs off the Esplanade in Redondo Beach at
3:00pm. Mom and Grandma E, you are loved and
will be greatly missed. Rest in peace. XOXO
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Wells Fargo
troubles just
keep growing
A year after the banks
fake-accounts scandal
broke, a report points
to several undisclosed
high risk problems.
By James Rufus Koren
One year ago today, Wells
Fargo & Co. made the stun-
ning admission in a settle-
ment with regulators that it
Al Seib Los Angeles Times created perhaps 2 million ac-
AFTER sitting vacant for years, City Market is being reinvented as an upscale outpost dedicated to counts for customers with-
dining, drinking and hanging out. Above, developers Mark Levy, left, Peter Fleming and Kevin Napoli. out their permission.
The disclosure ignited a
a risk-management commit-
tee that monitors Wells Far-
gos community bank the
business unit at the center of
the accounts scandal
identifies several so-far
undisclosed issues, all clas-
sified as high risk. They in-
clude improper fees charged
on some accounts that were
closed when the holders ei-
ther died or were declared le-
gally incompetent, a prac-
tice that dates to at least
early last year.
Coupled with some of the
banks recent admissions
including an audit that
found the number of sham
accounts may total 3.5 mil-

Dressing up L.A.s
scandal that led in a matter
of weeks to the ouster of its
chairman and chief execu-
tive, John Stumpf, and to a
host of promised reforms, in-
cluding the removal of oner-
ous sales goals that were
widely acknowledged to be
lion the report shows how
the bank continues to un-
cover bad practices that pre-
viously went undetected or
unaddressed.
It keeps expanding,
said bank analyst Bert Ely.
The question one has to ask

Fashion District
the source of the problem.
But a year later, the scan-
dal that started with out-
rage over sham accounts has
ballooned, and that sin is
just one of many the San
Francisco bank has either
is, when does the last shoe
drop? Or are there more to
drop? Anyone who looks at
this continues to be as-
tounded at how problems
from the past keep coming
up.

Reemerging City Market adds to downtown revival admitted to or been accused

of.
An internal bank report
On Sept. 8, 2016, Wells
Fargo admitted to the fake-
accounts fiasco and agreed
reviewed by The Times to pay $185 million in fines
By Roger Vincent shows that list could grow and penalties to regulators,
Downtown L.A.
further still. including the Los Angeles
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The idea is to entice a new wave of office workers and oth- Sources: Mapzen, OpenStreetMap Los Angeles Times
ers who want to unwind on a downtown block few used to
visit.
The Fashion District is changing, said Mark Levy, Equifax said it launched
one of the developers. Were adding a new dimension. Information on as a website for people to check
So are others, as L.A.s real estate renaissance opens a whether their data were af-
new frontier. many as 143 million fected and to sign up for the
Investors and developers are pouring hundreds of mil- U.S. consumers may companys credit-monitor-
lions of dollars into the scruffy-edged Fashion District, ing services. But a form on
making it next in line for the kind of growth that has been have been exposed. the website purportedly of-
transforming South Park, the Historic Core and Arts Dis- fering to check potential
trict for years. By Paresh Dave impact instead just gives
Los Angeles developer Geoffrey Palmer is finishing his users a date on which they
600-unit Broadway Palace apartment complexes on the Equifax, one of the na- must return to Equifaxs
western edge of the district, which has seen a rush of new tions three major credit re- website to enroll in credit
housing, offices, stores and restaurants since the popular porting firms, announced monitoring.
Ace Hotel opened on Broadway near Olympic Boulevard Thursday that its computer The discrepancy drew
in 2014. systems had been breached, quick scorn from consumers
Brookfield, known for its portfolio of conventional leading to the unauthorized on social media. Equifax de-
high-rise office towers on Bunker Hill and the Financial accessing of Social Security clined to comment on the is-
District, bought a stake this year in the $440-million Cali- numbers and birth dates of sue. Several attempts to get
fornia Market Center, a half-empty fashion showroom up to 143 million U.S. con- through on a phone line that
complex it plans to transform into offices for creative sumers. Equifax said was dedicated
firms. The Atlanta-based com- to consumer calls about the
Such pricey investments in the once-remote Fashion pany said the intrusion data breach resulted in a
District dovetail with the profound transformation of enabled by a website vulner- busy signal.
downtown that some longtime observers still find hard to ability occurred from mid- Besides Social Security
fathom. May through July. The issue numbers and birth dates,
A year ago, I wouldnt have believed City Market was discovered July 29, and the accessed information
South could exist, said veteran commercial property ap- the company spent recent primarily includes names,
praiser David Zoraster of CBRE Group Inc., who has been Al Seib Los Angeles Times weeks working with a cyber- addresses and, in some
studying the city center professionally for nearly four dec- GOODS are displayed in the Fashion District near security consultant and au- cases, drivers license num-
ades. Downtown is now a [See Development, C3] City Market South, a former produce market. thorities on an investigation, bers, according to the com-
which is continuing. [See Breach, C5]

Ambitious plans
for electric cars
BMW plans 12 pure
electrics and 13
Time running out for Internet privacy bill
hybrids by 2025. DAVID LAZARUS The California bill would
Jaguar says its entire remedy that by requiring
fleet will be electric or As the clock telecom companies to ob-
hybrid by 2020. C2 ticks down tain customers approval
on the cur- an opt-in before using,
Legislators OK rent Cali- selling or sharing peoples
arbitration bill fornia legis- personal information with
Responding to the lative ses- marketers.
Wells Fargo scandal, sion, its Congress and the ad-
lawmakers OK a bill increasingly ministration went against
preventing forced looking like the will of the vast majority
arbitration by banks phone and of Americans when they
in some cases. C2 cable companies have suc- revoked the FCC rules,
ceeded in killing off a bill Chau said after introducing
Netflix panned aimed at giving state resi- his bill. California is going
by Fox official dents more control over to restore what Washington
Internet privacy. stripped away.
20th Century Foxs AB 375, written by As- Nearly two dozen other
Stacey Snider singles semblyman Ed Chau (D- states are pursuing similar
out Netflixs movie Arcadia), was introduced in fixes, and polls suggest that
division for criticism June after Republican law- restoration of Internet
at an entertainment makers in Congress and the privacy rules is strongly
conference. C2 Trump administration supported by both Demo-
repealed privacy rules put in crats and Republicans.
Business Beat ......... C2
place by the Federal Com- But privacy advocates
Market Roundup .. C4 munications Commission Christina House For The Times tell me Chaus legislation
Classifieds ................. C5 under former President A BILL requiring telecom companies to obtain customers approval before selling has been trapped for weeks
Obama. or sharing peoples personal information is stuck in a California Senate panel. [See Lazarus, C4]
C2 F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017 WST L AT I M E S . C O M / B U S I N E S S

BUSINESS BEAT
Luxury carmakers push EVs Netflix
panned
BMW plans 12 pure
electrics, 13 hybrids by by Fox
2025. Jaguar sets even
more ambitious target.
By Russ Mitchell
official
By David Ng
SAN FRANCISCO In
case anyone still questions
whether the worlds au- In a rare moment of exe-
tomakers are taking electric cutive candor, the head of
cars seriously, BMW said 20th Century Fox Film deliv-
Thursday that 12 all-electric ered a verbal beating to Net-
models and 13 hybrids will be flix, saying that the stream-
on the market by 2025. ing giant offers no advan-
BMW joins Volvo, Mer- tages to filmmakers or mov-
cedes-Benz, Volkswagen, ie lovers, and that its days as
Ford and other carmakers a dominant force in Holly-
that have announced big wood are numbered.
plans to sell a wide variety of Stacey Snider, who
electric and hybrid cars over serves as chairwoman and
the next several years. chief executive of Foxs film
Also Thursday, Jaguar division, didnt mince words
Land Rover said its entire when speaking Thursday at
fleet of new vehicles will be the Bank of America Merrill
electric or hybrid-electric Lynch 2017 Media, Commu-
starting in 2020. nications and Entertain-
The latest announce- Jaguar ment Conference in Beverly
ments come as auto compa- TO DRAW attention to its plan to have its entire fleet of new vehicles be either all-electric or hybrid-electric Hills. When asked by a mo-
nies, especially in Europe, starting in 2020, Jaguar built an all-electric version of the 1968 E-Type roadster it calls the E-Type Zero. derator about the ways that
position themselves to get streaming services are
ahead of government man- nouncement Thursday, ar- hybrid cars as well as pure He likens the evolution to version of the X3 sport utility changing the industry,
dates requiring low- and gued against the mandates, electric vehicles. fuel injection, first used in will debut in 2020, with other Snider singled out Netflixs
zero-emission cars and which may bar gas or diesel Hybrid cars range from expensive race cars to im- vehicles to follow. movie division for criticism.
trucks to cut pollution and engines from parts of cities mild hybrids, which cut prove efficiency before it be- The all-electric Jaguar I- I couldnt find, and I
greenhouse gas emissions. at rush hour. Customer de- emissions and improve fuel came a standard piece of Pace sport utility vehicle, wont say their names, the
France and England are mand cannot be forced, he economy by using a small mass-market engine meanwhile, goes on sale in Netflix movies that we were
considering a ban on the sale said. We do not advocate electric motor to take some technology. 2018. supposed to be upset got
of diesel and gasoline cars by driving bans and quotas. load off a traditional com- BMW said it will equip all To attract attention to its made at Netflix, she said.
2040. China is encouraging BMW board member bustion engine, to plug-in its factories to handle com- electric car announcement, Point me to an article or
electric cars for reasons both Klaus Frolich added: Cus- hybrids, which let a driver bustion engines, hybrid cars Jaguar also showed off a cus- campaign that gets me ex-
environmental and econo- tomers all over the world will commute on electric power and electric cars by 2020. tom-built all-electric version cited.
mic its attempting to de- prefer different types of alone and use a combustion The Germany-based car- of the famed E-Type sports Netflix has been aggres-
velop an electric-car export powertrain for a very long engine for longer distances. maker plans to unveil a four- car, called the E-Type Zero. sively investing in its slate of
industry. Indias govern- time. The cost of electrifica- door zero-emission car at The 1968 version of the car is original movies and recently
ment said it intends to ban Mandates or no, the au- tion is dropping, said Karl the big auto show in Frank- widely considered to be one hired Scott Stuber, formerly
all internal combustion en- tomakers are preparing Brauer of Cox Automotive. furt next week. An electric of the most beautiful cars of Universal, to head the di-
gines by 2030. themselves for a major shift Thats making it possible for version of the companys ever produced. vision.
BMW Chief Executive toward what they call elec- people to buy hybrids with- Mini brand will go on sale For the people who make
Harald Kruger, in his an- trification. That includes out paying a huge premium. next year, and an all-electric russ.mitchell@latimes.com movies, Snider said that
theres nothing about the
experience of making them
in a churn-like environment
that appeals to filmmakers.

Bill targeting arbitration clauses OKd Netflix declined to com-

ment.
Sniders words come as
Netflixs relationship with
Hollywood has grown more
nancial institutions may At Wells Fargo, like at accounts applied to all dis- Over the last few dec- tense. Walt Disney Co. said
Legislature approves challenge it, arguing it most big banks, when cus- putes with the bank, includ- ades, the U.S. Supreme last month that it would
stands in opposition to a fed- tomers open accounts they ing those over unauthorized Court has issued opinions in launch its own streaming
measure preventing eral law that favors arbitra- sign contracts that contain accounts. several arbitration-related service in 2019 and pull its
forced arbitration by tion and has been used to an arbitration clause a Even so, amid a public cases, generally saying movies from Netflix. Disney
prevent states from weak- provision requiring disputes outcry, Wells Fargo agreed to states cannot make rules chief Bob Iger said Thursday
banks in certain cases. ening or disregarding arbi- to be handled in private arbi- settle several class-action that disfavor arbitration at the conference that Mar-
tration agreements. tration, not in court. cases over the matter for and that state courts must vel and Star Wars movies
By James Rufus Koren Written by Sen. Bill Dodd Over the last few years, $142 million this year. honor arbitration agree- will be among the titles to
(D-Napa) and sponsored both before and after the Dodds bill would prevent ments. migrate to the new service.
The California Legisla- by State Treasurer John San Francisco institution California courts from en- Alan Kaplinsky, a Phila- And Fox has been fight-
ture has approved a bill Chiang, the legislation was acknowledged in September forcing arbitration clauses if delphia attorney who pio- ing with Netflix in court over
aimed at stopping banks designed to block a legal tac- 2016 that it created millions consumers are suing banks neered the use of arbitration allegations that the Los
from using arbitration tic Wells Fargo successfully of potentially unauthorized or credit unions over ac- clauses, told The Times this Gatos, Calif.-based stream-
clauses to shield themselves used to keep disputes over accounts, customers tried to counts that were opened spring that if the bill be- ing company unlawfully
from lawsuits over sham ac- unauthorized accounts out sue the bank over the prac- fraudulently. comes law, he believes the poached executives from its
counts a direct response of public court proceedings. tice. However, state and fed- The California Chamber Supreme Court would even- ranks. Netflix has claimed
to the Wells Fargo scandal. The idea that consum- eral courts tossed out those of Commerce, California tually overturn it. that Foxs employment con-
Senate Bill 33 passed the ers can be blocked from our cases after Wells Fargo ar- Bankers Assn. and other It clearly wont stand tracts arent enforceable.
state Assembly on Tuesday public courts when their gued its arbitration agree- business groups opposed up, he said. Really, theres Snider said Netflix will
and was approved by the bank commits fraud and ment still applied. the bill, arguing that if it be- no doubt at all that the state see more competition as stu-
Senate on Wednesday. It identity theft against them Judges agreed with the came law it probably would law would be preempted. dios launch their own
now goes to Gov. Jerry is simply un-American, banks argument that the ar- lead to years of costly litiga- streaming services.
Browns desk. Dodd said in a statement bitration clauses in custom- tion and ultimately be invali- james.koren@latimes.com
If the bill becomes law, fi- Wednesday. ers contracts for legitimate dated by federal courts. Twitter: @jrkoren david.ng@latimes.com

Honest Rates. Senators OK 2 for financial posts

Credit Union Mortgages
closure practices at
Panel approves OneWest Bank, which he ran
from 2010 to 2015. Mnuchin
Trumps picks for Fed was the banks chairman
position, comptroller from 2009 to 2015.
In 2011, a regulator that is
of the currency. now part of the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency
By Jim Puzzanghera said in a regulatory order
that OneWest had engaged
WASHINGTON A in robo-signing, a practice in
Senate committee on Thurs- which workers signed mort-
day approved two of Presi- gage- and foreclosure-re-
dent Trumps choices for key lated documents without re-
financial regulatory posts, viewing them or verifying

Purchase or Refinance including one for the short-

handed Federal Reserve
they were accurate.
At the confirmation

7/1 ARM 1 board, despite concerns
from Democrats that the
nominees were too close to
the industry.
Start Rate1 APR1 Investment fund man-
ager Randal Quarles has
been tapped to be the Feds
Chip Somodevilla Getty Images hearing, Otting defended his
RANDAL QUARLES , an investment fund manager, tenure and said that
was tapped to be Fed vice chairman for supervision. OneWest employees worked
to stop foreclosures. He
approved, 13 to 10. think either nominee is the noted that OneWest did not
Trump chose Otting to person we want in these im- confirm or deny the allega-
be the comptroller of the portant roles at our financial tions in the 2011 regulatory

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first vice chairman for su-
pervision. His approval by
the Senate Banking Com-
mittee by a 17-6 vote came a
day after another Fed vice
chairman, Stanley Fischer,
said he would be stepping
down next month, leaving
the seven-member board
Freddie Yeawary with four vacancies.
The other nominee given
Personal Mortgage Consultant the OK on Thursday was Jo-
currency, a powerful regula-
tor who oversees federally
chartered banks. The Office
of the Comptroller of the
Currency, an independent
bureau of the Treasury De-
partment, was pivotal in the
$185-million settlement last
year with Wells Fargo involv-
ing its creation of unauthor-
ized accounts.
Democrats had sharply
watchdogs, Sen. Sherrod
Brown (D-Ohio) said before
Thursdays vote.
Weve made a lot of prog-
ress in the seven years since
we passed Wall Street re-
form, and the last thing we
need are people at the Fed-
eral Reserve and Office of
the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency who are supposed to
look out for our financial sys-
order.
On Thursday, all but one
Democrat Sen. Heidi
Heitkamp of North Dakota
voted against Ottings
nomination.
Instead of helping fam-
ilies recover from the finan-
cial crisis, as CEO of
OneWest Bank, he contrib-
uted to the devastation,
Brown said of Otting before

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Airlines cap fares as Irma looms
Some carriers are also
waiving rebooking
fees. But several are
canceling flights.
By Hugo Martin
As one of the most power-
ful storms on record
approaches Florida, several
airlines have capped fares
for flights traveling in and
out of the path of Hurricane
Irma and waived fees for re-
booking flights.
But time is running out to
take advantage of the price
caps from as low as $99 for
an economy seat because
several major carriers have
already started to cancel
flights in the path of the hur-
ricane, starting Friday
night.
The hurricane could
make landfall in Florida as
soon as Saturday, according
to some forecasts.
As of Thursday after-
noon, more than 4,000
flights had been canceled to
and from airports in Florida
and the Caribbean, accord-
ing to Flightaware.com, a
flight tracking service.
Cruises that launch from
Florida have also been
canceled, and passengers
whose trips have been cut
short are trying to figure out
how to get home.
Walt Disney Co. is closing
Walt Disney Worlds Fort
Wilderness Resort & Camp-
ground in Orlando, which
New
L.A.
hot
spot
[Development, from C1]
cool place. For most of my
career, nobody would stay
there if they didnt have to.
The changes encroach-
ing on the Fashion District
also are being spurred by
internal, industry forces as
online purchasing and other
shifting retail trends shake
up the food chain bringing
clothes, accessories and fab-
rics to consumers.
The vast California Mar-
ket Center, at 9th and Los
Angeles streets, has been
struggling for more than 20
years, as wholesale show-
rooms lost their supremacy
in the clothing trade amid
the rise of mass retailers in-
cluding Wal-Mart.
The giant retail chain, for
example, learned to quickly
evaluate what customers
wanted at the point of sale
and buyers no longer needed
to travel to showrooms to
make purchasing judg-
ments. Online sales also
clobbered a lot of the smaller
boutique owners who once
flocked to the district to
stock their stores.
The garment industry is
hitting some head winds
with the Internet, said
Rena Masten Leddy, execu-
tive director of the L.A.
Fashion District Business
Improvement District.
Showrooms are less impor-
tant now and some building
owners will decide to go in a
new direction.
Also, bulk buyers from
South America, once key
customers in the district, are
disappearing as stronger
dollars and political turmoil
in some countries depress
purchasing.
Parts of the district also
evolved over the last several
years as many merchants
moved east of San Pedro
Street to newer buildings.
Womens wear stores,
which were concentrated on
its western end around
Maple and Wall streets
north of Pico Boulevard,
moved to the sprawling San
Pedro Wholesale Center and
other big wholesale marts to
the east, said Mark Moniz,
another CBRE property ap-
praiser.
Some mens wear whole-
salers checked out of Los
Angeles Street and many
clothing accessories dealers
vacated spots on Main
Street closer to the urban
core of downtown.
Now, new owners are
turning those sites into
apartment buildings, hotels
MORE THAN 4,000 flights had been canceled to and from airports in Florida and the Caribbean as of Thurs-
day afternoon, according to Flightaware.com. Above, a tourist heads to Miami International Airport.
has about 800 campsites and
400 cabins, and the Tree-
house Villas at Disneys Sar-
atoga Springs Resort, a
spokesman said Thursday.
Delta Air Lines an-
nounced Wednesday that
the Atlanta-based carrier
has capped one-way fares to
SHOPPERS browse in Santee Alley, the Fashion Districts outdoor bazaar where throngs gather daily to shop for bargains and kitsch.
FASHION SHOWROOM Lovestitch, above, is among the new tenants of City
Market South. The complex also features offices, bars, eateries and a coffeehouse.
and restaurants as change
comes at the Fashion Dis-
trict from two directions.
The South Park neigh-
borhood is creeping east and
the Historic Core is creeping
south, Moniz said.
City Market South is
leading the changes on the
eastern edge along San
Julian Street, transforming
the south end of the old pro-
duce market into a mixed-
use center with offices, bars,
restaurants, an event center,
fashion showroom Love-
and from South Florida at
$399 through next Wednes-
day, and is waiving all bag-
gage and pet-in-cabin fees
for flights involving 28 cities
in Florida and islands in the
Caribbean.
Delta said it has added
2,000 seats on flights out of
stitch and a coffeehouse.
Among the tenants in the
eight-building complex will
be a couple of entertainment
companies, Drive Studios, a
visual effects firm, and the
Bullitt studio operations of
filmmakers Justin Lin and
Anthony and Joe Russo. The
trio are behind such box-of-
fice standouts as the Fast
and the Furious franchise
and Captain America: The
Winter Soldier.
Bullitts offices will be in a
two-story former warehouse
Erik S. Lesser European Pressphoto Agency
Florida, the Bahamas and
the Dominican Republic to
help evacuate people from
the path of the storm.
Airports in St. Thomas
and St. Maarten remain
closed because of storm
damage.
JetBlue reduced one-way
built in the 1930s that also
holds Rossoblu, which
serves Bolognese-inspired
Italian cuisine.
Also coming to the for-
mer warehouse, in January,
is Slanted Door, a branch of
a San Francisco restaurant
known for its modern Viet-
namese cuisine.
And set to open soon in
an old banana-processing
facility and loading dock is a
yet-unnamed bar and
restaurant by mixologists
Pablo Moix and Steve Livi-
F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
fares to $99 to $159 for re-
maining seats on flights
leaving 14 cities in the hurri-
cane's path, through Sept.
13. But the airline warned
that most seats are already
sold out.
American, JetBlue,
United and Delta are letting
Photographs by Al
gni intended to be a night-
time destination.
Indeed, creating multiple
eating and drinking options
was part of the strategy to
build City Market Souths
reputation, said developer
Levy, who is building out
the complex with partners
Kevin Napoli and Peter
Fleming.
Fleming is the great-
nephew of Edward J. Flem-
ing, who co-founded the
original City Market with Au
Gee Jong in 1909. He brought
in Levy and Napoli of Lena
Group Partners in 2013.
It will cost about $13 mil-
lion to build out the 2.5-acre
Market South, but it is
slated to be just the first
phase of development at the
former produce site long
known as the City Market of
Los Angeles.
Plans for a much bigger
parcel to the north owned by
Fleming call for a ground-up
development that could in-
clude a campus for a private
college, high-rise residences,
hotel rooms and offices for
rent. If approved by Los An-
geles officials, the north City
Market complex would total
about 1.6 million square feet
on 7.5 acres, said Douglas
Hanson, master plan archi-
tect for the project.
Construction would be
spread over several years
and could cost more than
$500 million. Hanson said
City Market South was a way
to kick off the bigger project
and reorient the neighbor-
hood from vehicles to pedes-
trians.
It starts to develop the
C3
customers change travel ar-
rangements to Florida and
the Caribbean without the
usual charges for rebooking.
Airline officials and in-
dustry experts are also
shooting down reports cir-
culating on social media
that air carriers are exploit-
ing the potential catastro-
phe by raising fares dramati-
cally for people trying to es-
cape the approaching hurri-
cane.
Instead, airlines say they
normally set aside a handful
of seats on each flight for
travelers who are willing to
pay extra to book at the last
minute.
Contrary to references
in social media, Delta has
not raised prices because of
Hurricane Irma, said An-
thony Black, a spokesman
for the airline.
Sen. Richard Blumen-
thal (D.-Conn.) and Sen. Ed-
ward Markey (D.-Mass.)
asked Transportation Sec-
retary Elaine Chao to inves-
tigate reports of airline price
gouging.
Price gouging practices
can take root during emer-
gencies, so we further urge
you to keep a close and
watchful eye on airlines over
the coming week to ensure
airlines are not trying to
make a dime off disaster,
they wrote.
hugo.martin@latimes.com
Twitter: @hugomartin
Orlando Sentinel writer
Dewayne Bevil contributed
to this report.
Seib Los Angeles Times
neighborhood for the second
phase, he said.
For all the changes the
Fashion District is going
through, such gentrification
is unlikely to creep into San-
tee Alley, the districts popu-
lar outdoor bazaar where
throngs gather daily to shop
for bargains and kitsch.
Rents on the alley and on
prime blocks nearby with a
lot of foot traffic reach $9 per
square foot per month, said
real estate broker I. Hassan
of Quantum Associates.
Thats a price most
downtown retailers, who
typically pay $3 to $5 a
square foot in the Arts Dis-
trict and Historic Core,
would balk at.
Operators of Fashion
District shops that sell only
wholesale can also pay as
much as $9 or $10 a square
foot. That means landlords
are getting top dollar and
the kind of change now oc-
curring on the edges of the
district may not further
creep into it anytime soon.
So for now, City Market
shares San Julian Street
with a cluster of prosperous-
looking wholesalers such as
Juliet, Dancing Queen
and Cinderella that sell
womens floor-length gowns
for special events.
It will be interesting to
see how it affects the rest of
the neighborhood, Leddy
said of City Market South.
Some owners are saying, I
wonder what I can do with
my property.
roger.vincent@latimes.com
Twitter: @rogervincent
C4 F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
Problems at Wells keep surfacing
[Wells Fargo, from C1]
city attorneys office. The
banks practices were first
uncovered by a 2013 Los An-
geles Times investigation,
which led to a 2015 lawsuit
from City Atty. Mike Feuer.
Since then, though, the
bank has acknowledged
additional bad practices
and is facing investigations
and lawsuits over many
more and not just within
the community banking di-
vision.
In July, the bank said it
would pay $80 million in re-
funds to hundreds of thou-
sands of auto-loan
borrowers who were forced
to pay for bank-purchased
auto insurance policies de-
spite having coverage of
their own.
In an August regulatory
filing, the bank reported
that the Consumer Finan-
cial Protection Bureau is in-
vestigating two separate
matters, including allega-
tions that the bank improp-
erly charged fees to mort-
gage borrowers when loan
applications were delayed
a practice also alleged in two
recent lawsuits.
Other suits filed over the
last year allege a bevvy of ad-
ditional problems, including
improperly changing the
terms of mortgage loans for
bankrupt borrowers, sign-
ing up customers for un-
authorized life insurance
policies and overcharging
small businesses for credit-
and debit-card processing
services.
Some of the latest issues
to surface, most notably the
auto insurance matter, are
the result of the banks own
review of practices and con-
sumer complaints.
Mary Mack who re-
placed Carrie Tolstedt, the
former head of the commu-
nity bank who was fired last
year said Wells Fargo is
dedicating more resources
to analyzing, investigating
and correcting potential
problems.
We want to escalate [is-
sues] quickly so we can get
the right eyes and support
and help on potential is-
sues, she said.
She acknowledged that
new admissions or allega-
tions weigh on morale at the
Why the delay on privacy bill?
[Lazarus, from C1]
in the Senate Rules Com-
mittee, apparently with the
intention of letting it die
before it can come up for a
vote by Sept. 15, the final day
of political business in Sac-
ramento.
The Legislature wont be
back in session until Jan. 3,
at which point AB 375 could
be reconsidered.
This is a bill that phone
and cable companies never
want to see live and
breathe, said Ernesto
Falcon, legislative counsel
for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. They know
that the moment it comes
up for a vote, they lose.
The industrys strategy,
he said, seems to be trying
to buy time until it can
persuade Republican law-
makers in Washington to
pass a watered-down Inter-
net privacy law that would
preempt state measures.
AB 375 already has been
approved by the Senate
Energy, Utilities and Com-
munications Committee
and by the Senate Judiciary
Committee. A vote by the
Senate Rules Committee is
the final hurdle before it can
be acted upon by the entire
Senate.
All eyes are on state
Senate President Pro Tem
Kevin de Len (D-Los Ange-
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ON SEPT. 8, 2016 , Wells Fargo admitted to the fake-accounts fiasco and agreed to pay $185 million in fines
and penalties to regulators, including the Los Angeles city attorneys office. Above, City Atty. Mike Feuer.
bank, but said thats to be
expected and that the bank
cannot identify or fix every-
thing overnight.
All the evolution were
engaged in takes time,
Mack said. It is hard for the
team to read negative head-
lines, particularly since the
headlines may not be cap-
turing the full essence of the
story behind it, but that's
part of the process we're in
right now.
Current and former Wells
Fargo employees say bank
executives did not take com-
plaints seriously enough be-
fore the scandal, preferring
to deal with them one by one
and failing to look into the
root causes of repeated is-
sues.
An employee in the
banks risk-management di-
vision said all of that has
changed dramatically in the
last year.
When issues like this are
popping up, the bank is do-
ing a better job of acting and
reacting to it, said the em-
ployee, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity. A
couple years ago, they never
THE SENATE Rules panel is the final hurdle before
a vote by the full Senate. But the session ends Sept. 15.
les), who not only quarter-
backs the chamber, but also
chairs the Rules Committee.
Bottom line: If De Len
wants to bring AB 375 up for
a vote, it comes up for a vote.
So why doesnt he?
I put that question to a
spokesman for the Senate
leader. He instructed me to
submit it in writing, which I
did.
Neither De Leon nor
anyone else in his office
responded.
Funnily enough, De
Lens largest corporate
donor is AT&T, which the
EFFs Falcon said has been
especially aggressive in
lobbying against AB 375.
De Len received $14,200
from the telecom giant in
the last election cycle, ac-
cording to Vote Smart, a
website that tracks political
contributions.
Other top contributors
to De Len include Comcast
($8,200), the California
Cable and Telecommunica-
tions Assn. ($8,200), Char-
ter Communications
($8,000), Time Warner Ca-
ble ($8,000) and Cox Com-
munications ($8,000).
On an industry basis, he
received $248,016 from com-
munications and electron-
ics companies, according to
Vote Smart.
Samantha Corbin, a
Sacramento lobbyist repre-
senting privacy interests,
would have taken this kind
of action to figure out who
was affected by a problem
and how far back it goes. No-
body was looking and say-
ing, What really caused that
fee to be assessed?
Scott Siefers, an analyst
with investment bank Sand-
er ONeill, said its good that
the bank appears to be tak-
ing problems more seriously
but at the same time, it all
but ensures theres more
bad news ahead.
A bank the size of Wells
Fargo, which has more than
250,000 employees and bo-
asts that it does business
with 1 in 3 American house-
holds, is bound to uncover
problems if it goes out look-
ing for them, he said.
And the more it finds, the
more it paints a picture of a
bank that is or was out of
control.
The problem with being
such a broad and deep com-
pany is if you turn over
enough rocks, you're going
to find some things, Siefers
said.
The internal report, pub-
lished in July, lists five high-
The Washington Post/Getty Images
declined to speculate on
whether De Lens reluc-
tance to advance AB 375
was linked to all that tele-
com industry cash.
But that certainly col-
ors my opinion about why
things are happening the
way they are, she said.
It wouldnt seem too
much to ask that telecom
companies not serve as
digital pimps for our per-
sonal information. All of
them declare in their pri-
vacy policies that theyre
committed to protecting
customers data.
AT&T: Our privacy
commitments are funda-
mental to the way we do
business every day.
Verizon: We are commit-
ted to maintaining strong
and meaningful privacy
protections for customers.
You bet.
Telecom companies
know that an opt-in would
be lethal to their business
models, which increasingly
rely on revenue from mar-
keting deals. The simple
fact is that few consumers
would voluntarily agree to
have their information
shared with others.
At the same time, these
companies know that
hardly anyone takes the
trouble to opt out of market-
ing arrangements, making
the current system prefera-
ble to any alternative.
risk issues, all identified by
the bank itself.
Wells Fargo officials, in-
cluding Mack and Vic Al-
brecht, risk officer for the
community bank, declined
to comment on the report.
Albrecht did say, though,
that issues categorized as
high risk in reports to the laws that ban unfair, decep-
community banks risk com-
mittee would generally in-
clude those that might be
widespread, affect custom-
ers or have regulatory rami-
fications.
High-risk does not
mean on-par with the sales
practices issue, he said,
noting that the issue of un-
authorized accounts is in-
stead categorized by the
bank as critical, a higher
risk level.
The issue of early with-
drawal penalties for de-
ceased or legally incompe-
tent account holders was
identified last September,
and is a violation of bank
policies and federal regula-
tions, according to the re-
port.
The report notes that
Wells Fargos systems are
This is found money for
them, Corbin said. They
already get paid for provid-
ing a service. The marketing
money is a huge extra.
I reached out to AT&T,
Verizon and Comcast, which
Corbin and Falcon said have
spearheaded efforts to kill
AB 375. Only AT&T re-
sponded.
The company said in a
statement that the bill is
being pushed without a
public hearing and will
lead to consumer confusion,
diminish the Internet expe-
rience and result in a hodge-
podge of state-by-state
regulations.
AT&T insisted that our
customers are in control of
their information and they
have choices about how
AT&T uses their informa-
tion for marketing pur-
poses.
But a choice the com-
pany doesnt want them to
have, clearly, is the one in
which AT&T has to ask
their permission for any
data sharing, which is the
only choice worth having.
Chau told me he remains
optimistic that his bill will
find its way out of commit-
tee, get approved by the full
Senate, return to the As-
sembly for committee re-
view and get approved by
the full Assembly all
before next Friday.
He said hes been in
touch with De Len, but
hasnt received any indica-
tion about the Senate lead-
ers intentions. When I
brought up the telecom
industrys political dona-
tions, Chau offered a terse
no comment.
Im still hoping Cali-
fornia will take the lead on
this issue, he said. Im ticeable effect on the econo-
hoping the bill will continue
to move.
Times running out. You
might want to email De
Len or give his office a call
at (916) 651-4024 if you think
Internet privacy is impor-
tant.
Why should AT&T have
all the fun?
David Lazarus column runs
Tuesdays and Fridays.
david.lazarus
@latimes.com.
L AT I M E S . C O M / B U S I N E S S
Glenn Koenig Los Angeles Times
supposed to ensure fees are
waived in those cases. The
report does not suggest how
widespread the problem
might be or how far back it
might go but nevertheless
identifies it as a potential
UDAAP concern a refer-
ence to consumer protection
tive or abusive acts or prac-
tices.
Another issue mentioned
in the report, identified in
November, has to do with
fees paid by business ac-
count holders when they de-
posit cash. The report pro-
vides much less information
about this issue, calling it
confidential and subject to
attorney-client privilege.
For both of those issues,
the report suggests the bank
will offer some kind of reme-
diation to affected custom-
ers.
Other matters identified
as high risk are problems
with how errors are reported
at the branch level, a lack of
proper notification when
calls to customers are being
recorded and problems with
how stop-payments are
Major stock indexes
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U.S. stock indexes fin-
ished nearly back where
they started Thursday as
steep losses for banks and
insurance companies were
balanced out by gains for
healthcare and technology
companies.
Banks skidded as bond
yields reached their lowest
levels of the year, which sent
interest rates down. Insur-
ance companies plunged as
investors weighed the pro-
spects of big losses caused
by Hurricane Irma, which is
hitting the northern Carib-
bean and is projected to re-
ach Florida this weekend.
The economy is going to
suffer a few dents from the
storms, said John DeClue,
chief investment officer for
U.S. Bank Private Wealth
Management. But he said
the economy is in remarka-
bly good shape, and that
wont change even if damage
from hurricanes Harvey and
Irma slows economic growth
for a few months.
If the storms have a no-
my, he added, that will help
make sure the Federal Re-
serve moves slowly in raising
interest rates. Thats some-
thing investors want to see.
The Standard & Poors
500 index edged down 0.44
point to 2,465.10. The Dow
Jones industrial average fell
22.86 points to 21,784.78. The
Nasdaq composite rose 4.55
points to 6,397.87. The Rus-
sell 2000 index of smaller-
company stocks lost 3.52
points to 1,398.67.
processed, resulting in re-
funds to customers going
unclaimed.
Siefers, who has not seen
the internal report, said
these issues dont appear to
rise to the level of some of the
banks other admissions but
that more findings will
nevertheless wear on in-
vestors.
None of this is good
news, he said.
Though Wells Fargo has
continued to earn billions in
profits, the scandal has tak-
en a toll. The bank has paid
or agreed to pay at least $414
million in refunds and settle-
ments, and hundreds of mil-
lions more on legal fees, con-
sultants and other costs re-
lated to the accounts scan-
dal and its aftermath.
Meanwhile, the bank has
continued to grow, but at a
slower pace with new ac-
count openings down sig-
nificantly through the sec-
ond quarter of this year. For
instance, the bank reported
opening 395,000 new credit
card accounts during the
quarter a decline of 42%
from the same period last
year.
And the bank's stock has
suffered. It declined sharply
in the weeks after the scan-
dal broke and, despite a re-
covery, has continued to
underperform compared to
its peers.
Since Sept. 7 of last year,
the day before the scandal
broke, Wells Fargo shares
are up just 3%. The KBW
Nasdaq Bank Index, a
benchmark for the banking
industry, is up 27% over that
period.
If more problems contin-
ue to leak out, Siefers said in-
vestors will eventually get fa-
tigued.
You get to clear the
decks for a period of time
and look retrospectively,
he said. But there is a point
at which investors and
analysts would say, You
just keep finding these
things, and it feels like this
is just what the company
is. If were still having con-
versations like this a year
from now, that will be a prob-
lem.
james.koren@latimes.com
Twitter: @jrkoren
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Most of the stocks on the
New York Stock Exchange
rose.
The dollar fell to a 2-
year low after the European
Central Bank raised its
economic growth forecast
for the region this year. That
made the euro stronger and
the dollar weaker.
The European economy
is arguably doing as well as
ours, or better, said DeClue.
Insurers slumped as
Hurricane Irma cut a path of
devastation across the
northern Caribbean. Rein-
surance companies fell
sharply because many of
their policies are for cata-
strophic losses such as those
caused by a hurricane.
The ICE U.S. dollar in-
dex, which measures the
dollars value against a bas-
ket of other major curren-
cies, continued to fall. The
euro strengthened to $1.2003
from $1.1913 and the dollar
fell to 108.65 yen from 109.37
yen.
That helped technology
companies, which make
most of their sales overseas.
Microsoft added 94 cents, or
1.3%, to $74.34.
The yield on the 10-year
Treasury note fell to 2.04%
from 2.11% late Wednesday.
Banks took steep losses.
Bank of America fell 44 cents
to $22.97 and JPMorgan
Chase gave up $1.58 to $88.53.
Disney fell after Chief
Executive Bob Iger said the
companys earnings this
year will be about the same
as the year before, which dis-
appointed analysts. Its
stock lost $4.44, or 4.4%, to
$97.06.
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Equifax is hit by hackers

[Breach, from C1]
pany.
The credit card numbers
for 209,000 U.S. consumers
were compromised, and dis-
pute documents related to
182,000 U.S. consumers also
were accessed. An unspeci-
fied number of people in
Britain and Canada were af-
fected.
Equifax has acknowl-
edged or been linked to sev-
eral previous data breaches,
including much smaller inci-
dents in 2013 and 2015.
The latest breach is po-
tentially among the largest
on record in the U.S., sur-
passing incidents in the last
few years involving Target,
T.J. Maxx and health insurer
Anthem. Experian, an
Equifax competitor, has suf-
fered major breaches too.
Eric Gibbs, whose law
firm is involved in a con- ing consumers easier online whoever got into its systems
sumer lawsuit against Expe- access to tools. accessed its consumer or
rian over a 2015 breach af- But the ease of access is business credit reporting
fecting 15 million people, what makes Web applica- databases. Its unclear why
said the Equifax situation tions and services attractive they werent compromised
may end up fitting into a pat- to attackers as well, in the same way as other in-
tern. Peterson said. So Web ap- formation.
The one thing that has plications are targeted more Meanwhile, Bloomberg
held consistent in recent often by attackers, and when reported that three senior
years is theres substandard vulnerabilities are discov- Equifax executives sold a
internal practices that lead ered, the number of records combined $1.8 million worth
to these breaches, said lost typically dwarfs the data of company shares in the
Gibbs, a partner at Girard lost in other types of suc- four days following the dis-
Gibbs. Time and time cessful attacks. covery of the breach, before Mike Stewart Associated Press
again, the [breaches] are In a statement, Equifax it was made public. None of EQUIFAX has acknowledged or been linked to other
then blamed on sophis- Chairman and CEO Richard the trades were pre-sched- data breaches, including incidents in 2013 and 2015.
ticated hackers. But the so- Smith vowed to increase cy- uled, the news agency noted,
phistication of the hacker bersecurity spending. citing regulatory filings. Equifax shares sliding; the and credit card and banking
doesnt have to do with it, its This is clearly a disap- Equifax spokesperson stock price fell more than accounts.
the internal practices. pointing event for our com- Ines Gutzmer said in an 13%, or $18, to about $124 in Identity thieves may try
Andrew Peterson, chief pany, and one that strikes at email that the executives trading after markets to open new accounts, com-
executive of Los Angeles the heart of who we are and had no knowledge that an closed. mit insurance fraud or steal
Web application security what we do, his statement intrusion had occurred at Finance and security ex- tax refunds.
start-up Signal Sciences, said. the time they sold their perts recommended Thurs-
said that businesses have The company said it shares. day that people keep a close paresh.dave
been investing more in giv- hasnt found evidence that News of the breach sent eye on their credit reports @latimes.com

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Fresh
faces
in the
final
Stephens overcomes
Williams and Keys
beats Vandeweghe to
play for Open title.
HELENE ELLIOTT
NEW YORK
Sloane
Stephens was
stuck on her
couch in
January for
the duration
of this years
first Grand Slam event, the
Australian Open, her leg
immobilized by a massive
cast that protected her
surgically repaired left foot.
On Saturday she will play
for the championship of the
years last Grand Slam, the
U.S. Open, co-starring with
Madison Keys in an all-
American showcase of
first-time Slam finalists.
Their success attests to
the new depth of American
womens tennis and con-
firms the exceptional nature
of two young women who
might have seemed to be
moving at a slow pace in
turning their potential into
success but have gotten
there all the same.
Stephens, who ranked
957th in the world in late
July when she returned
from an 11-month injury
absence and was unseeded
here as the 83rd-ranked
player, played a gutsy third
set against seven-time
Grand Slam winner Venus
Williams on Thursday to
seize a 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 victory
before an emotionally spent
crowd at Arthur Ashe Sta-
dium. Keys, 22, had an eas-
ier time in capping the
[See Elliott, D9]
Matthew Stockman Getty Images
SLOANE STEPHENS
defeated Venus Williams
with a gutsy third set.
On the defensive A COMING-OF-AGE TALE
about its failures McVay is praised, but his biggest test may come in locker room
USC was gashed for
263 yards rushing in
its opener and
Stanfords up next.
By Zach Helfand
Cameron Smith found
himself in the unusual posi-
tion of evaluating USCs
game film in real time last
Saturday. Serving a half-
game suspension for a tar-
geting penalty during the
second half of the Trojans
Rose Bowl victory last Janu-
ary, the linebacker watched
on television in the locker
room as Western Michigan
had its way with USCs run
defense.
He dissected the first half
as it happened.
I got a perfect view, he
End of an empty NFL era
The return of the Rams and Chargers should
mean a lot to local high school football players. D2
SPORTS
F R I D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
IT WAS A SHORT and not so sweet night for Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, who leaves the game against the Rockies with two out
in the fourth inning after giving up four runs and six hits. Kershaw threw 86 pitches.
ACE OF RAGE
Seems like
a long way
to October
BILL PLASCHKE
On a steamy
Thursday after-
noon, with the
clouds slowly dark-
ening a brilliant
season, the club-
house of the mighty
and magical Dod-
gers was filled with
the sounds of ...
John Mayer?
When youre dreaming with a
broken heart, the waking up is the
hardest part, his voice crooned
through a smartphone and speak-
ers, decorating the lockers in
maudlin. You roll out of bed and
down on your knees, and for a
moment you can hardly breathe.
The players are hearing it, their
fans are feeling it, and with each
passing day, the breathing is just a
little bit harder.
The Dodgers are still a team
[See Plaschke, D7]
said.
What he watched he had
never seen before. There was
confusion, disorganization.
Outside linebacker Porter
Gustins back was turned to
the line of scrimmage on a
number of plays as he waved
and tried to communicate
defensive calls. Safety Chris
Hawkins ventured down
closer to the line of scrim-
mage to do the same.
Nor did Smith recognize
what he saw in Western
Michigans offense. The
Broncos, he said, were run-
ning formations that USC
hadnt planned for.
USC players and coaches
have pieced together a few
hypotheses for why the Tro-
jans front seven expected
to be a fearsome, imposing
pillar of the team was
humbled against Western
[See USC, D5]
SEAN McVAY, talking to backup quarterback Sean
Mannion, has never been a head coach at any level.
D
Photographs by Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
Kershaw is angry after his
early exit contributes to the
Dodgers seventh loss in a
row and 12th in 13 games.
COLORADO 9, DODGERS 1
By Andy McCullough
Clayton Kershaw ripped off his
glove and flung it against a dugout
wall. His hat tumbled from his
head. He stomped the floor. It was
futile, all futile, the rage of the Dod-
gers ace at his inability to stop a los-
ing streak manifesting in a few furi-
ous gestures.
In that moment, during the
fourth inning of a 9-1 loss to Col-
orado on Thursday at Dodger Sta-
dium, Kershaw resembled the fans
who had come to expect so much
better from these Dodgers than
this 1-12 stretch. Kershaw looked
like the die-hards typing screeds on
social media or punching the
steering wheel on their commute
MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS says there might be a time to home or, if theyre lucky enough to
worry, but the Dodgers havent reached that point yet. find these games on television,
flinging the remote against the
wall.
13
Magic number I picked a really bad time to
Combination of Dodgers wins or Arizona losses that have a bad night, Kershaw said.
will clinch the NL West title. The Dodgers (92-48) had hoped
8 Breaking down the last 10 Series champions. D7 [See Dodgers, D7]
By Gary Klein
The young head coachs
first NFL game did not go
well, but the immediate
aftermath might have been KANSAS CITY 42
worse. NEW ENGLAND 27
Jon Gruden was 35 in1988 Chiefs pick apart
when the Oakland Raiders
were routed at Kansas City
Patriots in opener
in their season opener. On Smith throws for four
the plane ride home he sat touchdowns and rookie
next to owner Al Davis. Hunt scores three. D3
I didnt think we were
going to make a first down
the whole year, Gruden napolis Colts at the Colise-
said. So I thought about um.
quitting when I got off the Gruden, an ESPN Mon-
plane. day Night Football analyst,
Gruden kept his job, knows what lies ahead for
guiding the Raiders to con- McVay, 31, as he navigates his
secutive 8-8 finishes before a first season.
breakthrough 12-4 record in It takes a lot of mental
his third season. Two years toughness a lot of mental
later, with the Tampa Bay toughness and some con-
Buccaneers, he won a Super fidence in yourself to be a
Bowl championship. head coach in this league no
In 2008, Grudens final matter what age you are,
season as an NFL coach, he Gruden said. But he will be
hired a young assistant tested.
named Sean McVay. Since January, when the
On Sunday, McVay will Rams tabbed McVay to re-
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press lead his own team for the place Jeff Fisher, NFL ob-
first time when he coaches servers marveled at how the
the Rams against the India- [See Rams, D4]
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at Seattle at Seattle at Seattle HOUSTON ERIC SONDHEIMER
who grew up in Los Angeles
7 6 1 7 will be able to play in front of
ON HIGH SCHOOLS
FSW FS1 FSW FSW family and friends.
ANGELS Getting to play the
Steve Smith won a Super Rams and Chargers,
IND. Bowl ring as a receiver with Smith-Schuster said, its
1 the New York Giants. Hes going to be great for my
Ch. 2 also a member of the so- family.
RAMS called lost generation of The Rams and Chargers
people who grew up in Los should have strong commu-
at Denver Angeles from 1995 through nity outreach programs.
7:15 2015, when there was no NFL The Rams last season do-
ESPN team based here. nated equipment to the Los
CHARGERS I was a basketball guy Angeles Unified School
growing up, he said. The District and sponsored a
at Seattle Rams and Raiders left when seven-on-seven high school
6 I was in first grade. tournament. They also are
FS1 At Woodland Hills Taft sponsoring a pilot program
GALAXY High, he became so good at Gary McCullough Associated Press creating an academic chal-
catching passes that USC SAYS SOUTHLAND-BRED Malik Jackson of the lenge among the high school
TBA* offered him a scholarship. Jaguars: Not having an NFL team didnt bother me. football teams at Crenshaw,
7 USC was like a pro Eagle Rock, Fairfax and San
ESPN2 team, he said. We felt we cities in America that dont Robert Woods (Gardena Fernando. Both NFL teams
SPARKS made it when youre at USC have NFL teams, and kids Serra, USC), DeSean Jack- are honoring high school
because there was no pro still grow up to be NFL son (Long Beach Poly, Cali- coaches of the week.
Shade denotes home game *WNBA playoffs team. players. But when you re- fornia), DeAnthony Thom- The biggest wish list item
How many young ath- move not one but two pro- as (Crenshaw, Oregon) and among high school coaches
letes abandoned football for fessional teams from an Anthony Barr (Loyola, is for the pro teams to hold
TODAY ON THE AIR basketball, baseball, soccer area as large as Los Angeles, UCLA). clinics to show them train-
or other sports in Southern the ramifications can be We came out and ing methods.
TIME EVENT ON THE AIR California over those 21 profound. wanted to live our dreams Im not sure how big the
AUTO RACING seasons probably wont ever Because USC and UCLA and motivate kids that they NFL presence was before,
9 a.m. NASCAR Monster Energy Cup, Federated Auto TV: NBCSN be known, but the return of have strong college pro- could get there, whether Griffin said. I know cities
Parts 400, final practice two pro teams this season grams, they helped keep they were at Birmingham, that do have NFL teams,
with the Rams playing at interest in football alive Oaks Christian or Taft, they do a great job mentor-
1 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series, Virginia 529 College TV: NBCSN
the Coliseum and the Char- locally and made dreams Jackson said. We did in- ing. There will be tons of
Savings 250, qualifying
gers at StubHub Center come true even if kids spire others. kids benefiting from having
2:30 p.m. NASCAR Monster Energy Cup, Federated Auto TV: NBCSN should be a boon for the didnt get a chance to see Theres no denying the teams here.
Parts 400, qualifying football community. NFL games live. influence of having an NFL At least one high school
4:30 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series, Virginia 529 College TV: NBCSN It helps build the new You rely on the college team visit your city. Ryan player has his own brother
Savings 250 generation, said Smith, team and being the best in Griffin, a backup quarter- to serve as an NFL role
BASEBALL who has sons ages 6 and 2. your city and high school, back with the Tampa Bay model. That would be
5 p.m. New York Yankees at Texas TV: MLB You take them to a game, said Malik Jackson of the Buccaneers and a graduate Chaminades Mac Griffin,
7 p.m. Colorado at Dodgers TV: SNLA R: 570, and you see the fans. I didnt Jacksonville Jaguars, a of West Hills Chaminade Ryans younger brother.
1020 have that when I was a kid. defensive tackle who played High, played basketball as a In Los Angeles, nothing
The first NFL game that at Lake Balboa Birming- child. But he also became a is simple when it comes to
7 p.m. Angels at Seattle TV: FS West
second-round draft pick ham High. Not having an big fan of the Dallas Cow- deciding which pro team to
R: 830, 1330
JuJu Smith-Schuster of the NFL team didnt bother me. boys, who trained in Ox- root for. The Raiders left in
BOXING Pittsburgh Steelers plays It made me hungry to be on nard. 1994 but still have a large
10 p.m. David Benavidez vs. Ronald Gavril TV: Showtime will be more than just a a team. I followed on TV, he following.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL memorable experience. Players who made it to said. I went to Cowboy Its hard to go against
3:30 p.m. Memphis at Central Florida TV: ESPNU I didnt see any NFL the NFL remember being training camp all the time. the Giants, but Im going to
5 p.m. Oklahoma State at South Alabama TV: ESPN2 games ever, the standout inspired to follow the paths My mom is from Dallas. She pick a game and go watch,
receiver from Long Beach of some of their favorite high brainwashed me. For my Smith said. In my heart, I
5 p.m. Ohio at Purdue TV: FS1 Poly High and USC said. Ill school and college players, 10th birthday, I got to watch bleed blue.
COLLEGE SOCCER be playing before I ever such as Keyshawn Johnson Cowboys-Packers, Troy
2:30 p.m. Women, Santa Clara at USC TV: Pac-12 watched them. (Dorsey High, USC), Clay Aikman versus Brett Favre. eric.sondheimer@latimes.com
4 p.m. Indiana at Maryland TV: Big Ten Yes, there are plenty of Matthews (Agoura, USC), And now, NFL players Twitter: latsondheimer
4 p.m. Virginia Tech at Duke TV: Prime
7:30 p.m. Women, Florida Gulf Coast at Arizona TV: Pac-12
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
6 p.m. Women, UCLA at Nebraska
COLLEGE WATER POLO
TV: Big Ten Big wins a kick for Santa Margarita
5 p.m. Stanford at USC TV: Pac-12
wood, the Freeway League
GOLF
6:30 a.m. Omega European Masters TV: Golf
Brady impressively TONIGHTS TOP GAMES MVP last season at Fuller-
ton Troy. He has mobility
11:30 a.m. LPGA, Indy WIT Championship TV: Golf punctuates rout by Lancaster Paraclete (2-0) at Westlake Village Oaks Chris- and loves to scramble. He
9:30 p.m. Champions, Japan Airlines Championship TV: Golf booting field goals of tian (1-1), 7 p.m.: Paraclete is ranked No. 1 in Southern Sec- broke off a 55-yard touch-
TV: Golf tion Division 5 and have been playing like a Division 1 team. down run in which no
4:30 a.m. Omega European Masters
(Sat.)
55 and 47 yards. Quarterback Brevin White, receiver Andre Hunt and fresh- Alemany defender touched
man running back Amir Bankhead are off to outstanding him. He also passed for two
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL S. MARGARITA 61 starts. Oaks Christian knocked off Edison last week after touchdowns.
7:30 p.m. Chaminade at St. John Bosco TV: Prime ALEMANY 7 relying more on the physicality of quarterback Josh Calvert. Then there was running
PRO BASKETBALL The pick: Paraclete. back Chad Magyar, who
By Eric Sondheimer
4:30 p.m. Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement TV: NBA West Hills Chaminade (2-0) vs. Bellflower St. John Bosco
scored three touchdowns
SOCCER and rushed for 161 yards in 13
(1-1) at El Camino College, 7:30 p.m.: Chaminade gets an
Dylan Brady, a senior carries.
11:15 a.m. Germany, Hamburg vs. Leipzig TV: FS2, UDN early playoff test. The Eagles offensive line might be the
kicker for Santa Margarita, The fourth quarter was
11:30 a.m. France, Metz vs. Paris Saint-Germain TV: beIN1 best in school history, but St. John Boscos defense is a
experienced a first half that played under a running
11:45 a.m. Spain, Leganes vs. Getafe TV: beIN2 strength. Running back Andrew Van Buren must be able to
kickers can only dream clock. It has been a challeng-
pick up yards for Chaminade to stay close.
4:30 p.m. Mexico, Puebla vs. Cruz Azul TV: UDN about Thursday night in a
The pick: St. John Bosco.
ing opening month for sec-
6:45 p.m. Mexico, Atlas vs. Tigres UANL TV: UDN nonleague game against ond-year Alemany coach
Eric Sondheimer
3:45 a.m. Spain, Real Madrid vs. Levante TV: beIN Net Mission Hills Alemany at James Washington, who
(Sat.) Laguna Hills. won a Super Bowl ring with
Brady sent seven kickoffs opening a 48-7 halftime lead. With Santa Margarita the Dallas Cowboys. The
4:15 a.m. England, Manchester City vs. Liverpool TV: NBCSN, UNVSO
flying into the end zone for It was another sign of the and JSerra already owning Warriors (1-2) are trying to
(Sat.)
touchbacks. He booted a 47- dominance of Trinity wins over Alemany and Loy- compete in Division 1. Re-
6:15 a.m. Germany, Monchengladbach vs. Frankfurt TV: FSP, UDN yard field goal. And on the fi- League teams this season. ola, those two teams will ceiver Jacob Perez had 11
(Sat.) nal play of the half, he made The leagues six teams are a probably have to earn an catches for 96 yards.
6:30 a.m. Germany, Freiburg vs. Dortmund TV: FS1, FOXD a 55-yard field goal, with the combined 12-1. automatic berth through As for Fisher, hes happy
(Sat.) ball hitting the crossbar and And the Eagles knocked the Mission League by fin- with the Eagles. I took this
6:30 a.m. Germany, Mainz vs. Leverkusen TV: FS2 bouncing over. He finished off Loyola 35-0 and now ishing in the top three spots job for a reason, he said. To
(Sat.) the night going 11 for 11 on Alemany in their last two to get in. coach in the Trinity League,
6:45 a.m. England, Arsenal vs. Bournemouth TV: NBCSN, UNVSO touchbacks and made seven games. Both are Division 1 Coach Rich Fisher, in his the best in America, and
(Sat.) conversion kicks. Mission League teams that second season at Santa Mar- against the best athletes. I
TENNIS Thirteen points is not already are facing a difficult garita after previously hope Im here a long time.
bad, he said. road to the playoffs. coaching 17 years in the col-
9 a.m. U.S. Open, doubles final TV: ESPN2
Santa Margarita (3-0) Sixteen of the 18 Division lege ranks, has an intriguing eric.sondheimer@latimes.com
1 p.m. U.S. Open, mens semifinals TV: ESPN cruised to a 61-7 victory after 1 teams make the playoffs. quarterback in Josiah Nor- Twitter: latsondheimer

Nunes-Shevchenko gets top billing at UFC 215

Demetrious Johnsons
foe gets ill and drops
out of Saturdays main
event in Edmonton.
By Lance Pugmire
Amanda Nunes was sick,
pulled out of the July UFC
main event as it neared and
was told she wouldnt be
placed in another showcase
for her misdeed.
Nearly two months to the
day, Nunes is back in the
main event of UFC 215 Sat-
urday in Edmonton, Canada,
as news broke Thursday
night that flyweight title con-
tender Ray Borg has with-
drawn from his planned
headline fight against cham-
pion Demetrious Johnson.
Johnson (26-2-1) was bid-
ding to break former middle-
weight champion Anderson
Silvas record for consecutive
successful title defenses, and
beating No. 3-rated Borg
(11-2) wouldve been John-
sons record-setting 11th
straight defense.
Instead, Borg fell ill and,
according to a report
by mmafighting.com, was
pulled from the card on the
orders of UFC doctors. He
and Johnson could poten-
tially meet Oct. 7 at UFC 216, a
card currently headlined by
an interim lightweight title
fight between Orange Coun-
tys Tony Ferguson and Kevin
Lee at T-Mobile Arena in Las
Vegas.
UFC officials later con-
firmed Borgs withdrawal,
saying he had a viral illness.
Borgs illness simulta-
neously redeems and thwarts
UFC President Dana White,
who was met by resistance
from Johnson over Whites in-
terest in assigning the cham-
pion a more stringent test for
the record against former
bantamweight champion T.J.
Dillashaw the former Cal
State Fullerton wrestler now
awaiting a Nov. 4 title shot at
bantamweight champion
Cody Garbrandt.
Earlier Thursday, John-
son expressed excitement
that the moment is here, to
pass Silva. Now, Ive just got
to do my thing. No other
champion has been here. I
just have to execute.
Instead, Borgs misfor-
tune revives womens ban-
tamweight champion Nunes
(14-4), who will meet top-
rated contender Valentina
Shevchenko (14-2) after their
AMANDA NUNES , previously demoted from the top
of the card, is fighting in the main event again.
July 8 meeting was scrapped
and rescheduled.
Then, Nunes said she fol-
lowed her coachs suggestion
and her own hunch that the
sinus illness she suffered with
on the morning of her UFC 213
main event in Las Vegas was
too severe to fight with, leav-
ing the UFC to offer refunds.
White followed through on
his promise to punish Nunes
by placing her rematch with
Shevchenko under the
planned title defense of John-
son, who last fought in Kan-
sas City in a UFC on Fox
headliner.
Nunes has sought this
Christian Petersen Getty Images
week to clean up her mess
with White by repeatedly ex-
plaining her withdrawal and
vowing for a quick return to
the dominant form that
gained her first-round, pay-
per-view main-event victo-
ries over Miesha Tate and
Ronda Rousey last year after
she defeated Shevchenko by
decision in March 2016.
I wasnt feeling good in
the morning and my coach
told me not to fight. I knew
itd be rescheduled, and here
we are now, Nunes said. I
worked too hard in my career
to put my belt on the line
when Im not feeling good.
UFC 215
Main Event: Amanda
Nunes (14-4) vs. No. 1
Valentina Shevchenko
(14-2) for Nunes
bantamweight belt.
When: Saturday.
Where: Rogers Place,
Edmonton, Canada.
TV: Pay-per-view ($59.95)
begins at 7 p.m. PDT;
preliminary undercard
fights on Fox Sports 1 at 5
p.m.
Undercard: No. 6 Neil
Magny (19-6) vs. No. 10
Rafael dos Anjos (26-9),
welterweights; No. 10 Ilir
Latifi (13-5) vs. No. 13 Tyson
Pedro (6-0), light-
heavyweights; No. 8
Jeremy Stephens (25-14)
vs. No. 14 Gilbert Melendez
(22-6), featherweights.
Why do I have to step in the
cage?
Anyway, Nunes said be-
fore Borgs illness, she felt
Johnson deserved the main
event as a showcase for his
skills, which have him ranked
as the No. 1 pound-for-pound
fighter on UFC.com.
What [White] said didnt
bother me at all. My money is
going to be the same, Nunes
said. The most important
thing I can do is beat this girl
[Shevchenko] in front of me
first fight of the night, or
last and I know in my next
show, Im going to be in the
main event.
What it came down to in
July, Nunes said, was uphold-
ing her responsibility as part
of the big team that is the
UFC, an obligation to per-
form only when feeling her
best to sustain the momen-
tum that womens fighting
has gained from the Rousey
era through hers, as Nunes
confronts likely her most dif-
ficult fight yet.
Everybody has things to
say, and Im not going to be
mad at [White] for giving his
opinion, Nunes said. Hes
my boss. Im not going to fight
with the person whos feeding
me. I respect him as a boss.
Im going to prove to him that
Im the best and move for-
ward with my career.
Ill take on whatever chal-
lenge life gives me, and Valen-
tina will be that next chal-
lenge.
lance.pugmire@latimes.com
Twitter: @latimespugmire
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Chiefs crash Patriots celebration
Smith is brilliant as
Kansas City ruins
defending champs
banner-raising night.
KANSAS CITY 42
NEW ENGLAND 27
By Sam Farmer
FOXBOROUGH, Mass.
They cheered. They danced.
They high-fived.
Thursday was a night of
celebration for the New Eng-
land Patriots.
Until the Kansas City
Chiefs came to life.
In a resounding upset of
the defending Super Bowl
champions, the visiting Chiefs
relied on a pristine perform-
ance by quarterback Alex
Smith and the scorching
speed of Tyreek Hill and rook-
ie Kareem Hunt to deliver a
42-27 defeat that left Gillette
Stadium as quiet as a library.
The same crowd that
toasted the five-time Super
Bowl champions, booed NFL
Commissioner Roger Good-
ell, and cheered wildly as the
latest banner was unfurled,
headed for the exits in
stunned disbelief.
The Patriots, favored by
nine, had won eight in a row
when opening the season at
home. Even without star re-
ceiver Julian Edelman, done
for the year because of a knee
injury, they are loaded with
talent. They almost went up
by two touchdowns in the first
six minutes but there was no
writing off the Chiefs, who fin-
ished with 537 yards of offense.
The 42 points were the
most allowed by the Patriots
in the Bill Belichick era
eclipsing the 41they gave up to
the Chiefs in a 2014 loss.
On defense, the Chiefs
stymied Tom Brady, who lost
for the first time in 10 Thurs-
day night starts.
We didnt blink, Kansas
City linebacker Derrick John-
son said. Thats the best
thing we did tonight. We
CHIEFS running back Kareem Hunt, left, crosses the goal line for a touchdown ahead of New England Patri-
ots linebacker Kyle Van Noy and safety Duron Harmon, on ground. Hunt had three touchdowns.
didnt blink.
But one of their players did
reboot. Hunt coughed up the
ball on Kansas Citys first play
from scrimmage a guy who
never lost a fumble in four
years at Toledo then put on
an amazing show. He finished
with 243 yards from scrim-
mage and three touchdowns,
including a catch and carry
that covered 78 yards.
Guys were just letting me
know, We got your back, to
forget about it and come back
and make plays, Hunt said.
Smith was brilliant, com-
pleting 28 of 35 passes for 368
yards and four touchdowns.
That vastly upstaged Brady,
who completed 16 of 36 passes
for 267 yards, with no touch-
downs or interceptions, and
was under heavy pressure, es-
pecially after losing security
NFL WEEK 1
blanket Danny Amendola to a
concussion.
We didnt make a lot of
plays tonight, Brady said.
We need to be a lot better in a
lot of areas. Start with our at-
titude and our competi-
tiveness.
The Chiefs took a 21-17 lead
just before the midway point
of the third quarter, when Hill
got behind the defense and
turned a long pass into a 75-
yard touchdown. He was so
far ahead of his pursuers after
making the catch, he turned
and shot them the peace sign.
As far as the touchdown, it
was Alex and the offensive
line, everybody protecting,
Hill said. Without those guys,
I wouldnt have been able to and moved all the way to the
get down the field Alex is our
leader. Weve just got to rally touchdown lead with less than
behind him, keep supporting
him, and hell keep taking
shots down the field.
Both teams lost key defen-
sive players. New England
linebacker Donta Hightower
left the game in the third
quarter with an apparent
knee injury, and All-Pro Kan-
sas City safety Eric Berry was
carted off with what looked to
be an Achilles injury.
The Patriots led at half-
time, 17-14, but the game lop-
sided at that point.
New England opened with
a touchdown drive, then got
the ball right back when Hunt
fumbled on the visitors first
play from scrimmage.
The Patriots took pos-
session at the Kansas City 32
the lead in the third quarter.
10, threatening to take a two-
six minutes expired. Thats
Michael Dwyer Associated Press
when the Chiefs made a huge
play, stuffing the run for no
gain on fourth and one.
Then, Kansas City re-
sponded with a 90-yard scor-
ing drive that culminated with
a seven-yard touchdown pass
from Smith to tight end
Demetrius Harris.
Still, the Patriots were
knocking on the door
throughout the opening quar-
ter, with 20 of their 27 snaps
coming in Chiefs territory.
Scoring both of New Eng-
lands touchdowns in the first
half was running back Mike
Gillislee, formerly of Buffalo, a
free-agent acquisition in the
offseason. He would score a
third touchdown to reclaim
A.Wilson 5-37, Conley 2-43, De.Harris 2-15, West 1-4,
The home crowd was
buzzing to celebrate the de-
fending Super Bowl champi-
ons, who unveiled their fifth
banner during a pregame cel-
ebration that included a live
performance by the rapper
Flo Rida, and with hometown
favorite Mark Wahlberg act-
ing as master of ceremonies.
Goodell was in attendance
and was booed loudly when he
walked onto the visitors side-
line before the game.
Goodell is public enemy
No. 1 among Patriots fans,
who feel he unfairly punished
Brady for an alleged football-
deflating scheme. Although
this was shaping up to be
Goodells first trip back to
Gillette since Brady served
his four-game suspension, the
commissioner actually at-
tended an exhibition game
here in August.
A barely audible Belichick
summed up the night: Bad
defense. Bad coaching. Bad
playing. Bad football.
sam.farmer@latimes.com
Chiefs 42, Patriots 27
Kansas City ............................7 7 7 2142
New England...........................7 10 10 027
First Quarter
NE Gillislee 2 run (Gostkowski kick), 12:08.
KC De.Harris 7 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick),
3:03.
Second Quarter
NE FG Gostkowski 25, 14:56.
NE Gillislee 2 run (Gostkowski kick), 7:27.
KC Hunt 3 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), :13.
Third Quarter
KC Hill 75 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 9:19.
NE Gillislee 1 run (Gostkowski kick), 5:01.
NE FG Gostkowski 32, :09.
Fourth Quarter
KC Hunt 78 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 14:07.
KC Hunt 4 run (Santos kick), 5:14.
KC West 21 run (Santos kick), 4:00.
TEAM STATISTICS KC NE
First downs ...................................26 25
Total Net Yards .............................537 371
Rushes-yards ..........................27-185 35-124
Passing.......................................352 247
Punt Returns ..............................4-10 1-8
Kickoff Returns ...........................4-86 3-49
Interceptions Ret...........................0-0 0-0
Comp-Att-Int..........................28-35-0 16-36-0
Sacked-Yards Lost .......................3-16 3-20
Punts .....................................6-43.7 6-40.3
Fumbles-Lost................................2-1 1-0
Penalties-Yards........................15-139 6-55
Time of Possession ....................30:14 29:46
Individual Leaders
RUSHING:Chiefs, Hunt 17-148, West 1-21, Hill 2-5,
Thomas 1-4, Kelce 1-4, A.Smith 5-3. Patriots, Gillislee
15-45, J.White 10-38, Hogan 3-17, Burkhead 3-15,
Lewis 2-9, Brady 2-0.
PASSING:Chiefs, A.Smith 28-35-0-368. Patriots,
Brady 16-36-0-267.
RECEIVING:Chiefs, Hill 7-133, Hunt 5-98, Kelce 5-40,
Thomas 1-(minus 2). Patriots, Amendola 6-100, Cooks
3-88, J.White 3-30, Gronkowski 2-33, Hogan 1-8, Burk-
head 1-8.
FIELD GOALS MISSED: None.

FARMERS PICKS AROUND THE LEAGUE

No. 1 pick Garrett

The Times NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines this Cardinals 31, Lions 21
weeks matchups. Lines according to Pregame.com TV: None. DirecTV: 712.
Line: Cardinals by 2. O/U: 48.
(O/U = over/under). Last seasons record 172-82-2 (.677).

is out a few weeks

Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted,
the record against the spread last season would have
been 130-118-2 (.524). Records from last season.
Bills 20, Jets 13
TV: None. DirecTV: 705.
Line: Bills by 812. O/U: 40.
Both of these teams have been stripped
of some of their best players. With Tyrod
Taylor back at quarterback, the home
team should be OK. The Jets already
look hellbent on getting the No. 1 pick.
Bengals 24, Ravens 17
TV: None. DirecTV: 706.
Line: Bengals by 3. O/U: 4212.
The Bengals are loaded with talent but
cant seem to put it all together in criti-
cal games. They should be able to hold
off Baltimore, though, with Joe Flacco at
less than 100% and a shaky offense.
Steelers 30, Browns 13
TV: None. DirecTV: 707.
Line: Steelers by 912. O/U: 4612.
The Steelers could break records with
that offense, but it could take a while to
get revved up. The Browns are going to be
a little better on offense, but theyre
starting a rookie QB vs. Pittsburgh.
Texans 24, Jaguars 17
TV: None. DirecTV: 708.
Line: Texans by 5. O/U: 3912.
The Texans are going to try to run it a lot,
let Tom Savage protect the ball and their
top-ranked defense will be rolling with
J.J. Watt back. Jacksonville has lots of big
names but precious little mojo.
Titans 27, Raiders 23
TV: None. DirecTV: 709.
Line: Titans by 212. O/U: 51.
This could be the best matchup of the
week. Tennessee now has a passing game
to go with a ground-and-pound running
attack. Raiders have an excellent offense
but are vulnerable on defense.
Eagles 27, Redskins 21
TV: Channel 11. DirecTV: 710.
Line: Eagles by 112. O/U: 48.
Eagles added much-needed skill players
and should be able to run. Their defen-
sive line is tough, particularly Fletcher
Cox. Not sure Redskins, with new receiv-
ers, will pick up where they left off.
Falcons 34, Bears 17
TV: None. DirecTV: 711.
Line: Falcons by 6 12. O/U: 49.
The Bears are going to be able to run the
ball a bit this season, but they dont have
receivers and Mike Glennon doesnt
scare anyone. If the Falcons have a Super
Bowl hangover, it wont show this week.
The Cardinals are going to be more ver-
satile on both sides of the ball than a lot
of people expect. The Lions are at home,
and they have Matthew Stafford, but the
left side of that line is a liability.
Buccaneers at Dolphins, ppd.
TV: None. DirecTV: 713.
Line: Off board. O/U: Off board.
Because Hurricane Irma is headed for
NYJ at BUF south Florida this weekend, Tampa Bay
(5-11) (7-9) and Miami will begin the season with an
Sunday, 10 a.m. off week. The game will be made up on
Nov. 19 in Miami, which is Week 11.
Rams 24, Colts 13
TV: Channel 2. DirecTV: 714.
Line: Rams by 312. O/U: 4112.
Rams catch a big break, with Andrew
BAL at CIN Luck on the sideline and Scott Tolzien
(8-8) (6-9-1)
(0-2-1 as starter) under center. That said,
Sunday, 10 a.m. the Rams can take nothing for granted,
especially without Aaron Donald.
Packers 28, Seahawks 27
TV: Channel 11. DirecTV: 715.
Line: Packers by 3. O/U: 51.
The Packers have a tendency to dig
PIT at CLE themselves a hole early, and the Sea-
(11-5) (1-15) hawks are going to improve as their
Sunday, 10 a.m. offensive line gets time together. But
Green Bay gets off to a good start here.
Panthers 23, 49ers 17
TV: None. DirecTV: 716.
Line: Panthers by 512. O/U: 48.
Cam Newton barely played this summer
JAC at HOU and hes coming off shoulder surgery.
(3-13) (9-7)
The Panthers still have the edge here.
Sunday, 10 a.m. That said, the 49ers are going to get some
confidence as the season gets rolling.
Giants 31, Cowboys 23
TV: Channel 4.
Line: Cowboys by 4. O/U: 48.
New Yorks defense is going to be solid,
OAK at TEN and the Giants tend to play well at Dal-
(12-4) (9-7) las. They have had months to devise a
Sunday, 10 a.m. game plan against Dak Prescott, and it
pays off even with Ezekiel Elliott playing.
Vikings 28, Saints 23
TV: ESPN.
Line: Vikings by 3. O/U: 48.
Sam Bradford is a play-it-safe quarter-
PHI at WAS back, and the Vikings will lean on the
(7-9) (8-7-1)
ground game. Minnesotas defense will
Sunday, 10 a.m.
be hard to budge. Adrian Peterson will be
looking to trample his old team. Not here.
Broncos 24, Chargers 21
TV: ESPN.
Line: Broncos by 3. O/U: 43.
The Broncos have a slight edge because
ATL at CHI theyre at home and have an excellent
(11-5) (3-13)
defense. But Philip Rivers has proved he
Sunday, 10 a.m. can lead a team to victory in Denver, and
the Chargers have some playmakers.
ARI at DET
(7-8-1) (9-7)
Sunday, 10 a.m.
associated press
Myles Garretts NFL de-
but for the Browns wont
TB at MIA
happen for weeks.
(9-7) (10-6) The top overall pick in
this years draft will miss
Sundays opener against
Pittsburgh and possibly a
few more games after se-
verely spraining his right an-
kle during practice. A team-
mate fell on the back of his
leg during a drill Wednesday.
IND at LAR
An MRI revealed the 6-
(8-8) (4-12)
foot-4, 275-pound Garrett
Sunday, 1 p.m.
has a high ankle sprain, an
injury that typically takes
several weeks to heal. His
status will be updated in a
couple of weeks, the team
said. That means he will sit
out against the Steelers and
SEA at GB likely the following week at
(10-5-1) (10-6) Indianapolis, and perhaps
Sunday, 1:15 p.m. other games.
This is the second time
Garrett already has been
hurt as a pro, and those set-
backs came after he was lim-
ited during his junior year at
Texas A&M by a badly
sprained left ankle.
CAR at SF
(6-10) (2-14)
Garrett sustained a lat-
eral sprain to his left foot
Sunday, 1:15 p.m.
during minicamp while
pressuring former Browns
quarterback Brock Os-
weiler. The injury was ini-
tially thought to be serious,
but Garretts foot was immo-
bilized in a walking boot and
NYG at DAL he recovered in time for the
(11-5) (13-3) start of training camp.
Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Garrett had been point-
ing to the opener and prom-
ised to sack Ben Roethlis-
berger. Before Wednesdays
practice, Garrett said taking
down Steelers quarterback
would be nice, but his main
objective was to wreak havoc
NO at MIN
(7-9) (8-8)
wherever he could.
Monday, 4 p.m. Its to make a differ-
ence, he said. Making a dif-
ference whether its a sack,
TFL [tackle for loss] or just
being disruptive, thats what
Im going to do. Im going to
take the opportunities that
are given to me.
LAC at DEN Also, the Browns re-
(5-11) (9-7) leased safety Calvin Pryor
Monday, 7:15 p.m. on Thursday shortly after he
was involved in a fight with
wide receiver Ricardo Lou-
is.
Coach Hue Jackson did
not provide any details of the
skirmish, which took place
before practice.
Falcons Jones
is ready to go
All-Pro receiver Julio
Jones said Thursday that he
is 100% healthy for the At-
lanta Falcons opener Sun-
day at Chicago.
Jones had right foot
surgery in March and took
just eight snaps in one pre-
season game, but hes been
practicing with no restraints
for the last three weeks.
Jones ranked second in
the NFL last year with 1,409
yards receiving. In 2015, he
had the second-best season
in league history with 136
catches for1,871yards receiv-
ing.
Coach Dan Quinn ex-
pects Jones to have no limi-
tations with his foot against
the Bears.
We are definitely throw-
ing long passes, Quinn said
with a smile. I guess what
Id be concerned about is if
he didnt have practice time.
Thats a different story.
Etc.
New York Giants wide re-
ceiver Odell Beckham Jr.
has missed his third practice
this week and his status for
the season opener against
the Cowboys in Dallas re-
mains in doubt because of a
sprained left ankle. For the
second straight day, Beck-
ham stretched with team-
mates before the practice
and then worked with a
trainer. ... The Cincinnati
Bengals signed linebacker
Vontaze Burfict to a three-
year contract extension that
will keep him with the team
through the 2020 season.
The move Thursday comes
despite Burfict being sus-
pended by the NFL for the
first three games this season
for his egregious hit on Kan-
sas City Chiefs fullback An-
thony Sherman in a pre-
season game.
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FOOTBALL

Keeping Rivers healthy key for Chargers

Team probably can
make a run at playoffs,
provided quarterback
can stay on the field.
By Mike DiGiovanna
Kellen Clemens is an 11-
year veteran who has a firm
grasp of the Chargers of-
fense and, as evidenced by
his uneven preseason play
and the fact hes thrown 10
regular-season passes in
three years with the team, a
limited ceiling.
Second-year pro Cardale
Jones, acquired from Buf-
falo in August, has consider-
able physical gifts size,
strong arm, nimble feet
but might lack the touch and
command of the offense to
step in and be effective.
The Chargers open the
season at Denver on Mon-
day night with one of the
leagues best quarterbacks
in Philip Rivers, the 35-year-
old gunslinger who ranks
12th on footballs all-time
passing list with 45,833 yards
in 13 years and has made 185
consecutive starts dating to
2006.
You dont have to be hit
with a lightning bolt to know
the Chargers will need Riv-
ers Iron Man streak to Im right there at the first-
continue deep into Decem-
ber to have a chance to re-
bound from a 5-11 season and
compete for a playoff spot.
Jae C. Hong Associated Press The Chargers ability to
PHILIP RIVERS has made 185 consecutive starts at run the football and protect
quarterback for the Chargers, who were 5-11 last year. the quarterback is going to
be critical this year, Rex
Ryan, the former Buffalo
Bills and New York Jets head
coach who will be in the
ESPN booth for Monday
nights game, said on a con-
ference call.
Im impressed by their
starters, but offensively, I
dont like their depth. If
something ever happened to
Philip Rivers oh boy. You
have to protect him. If the
Chargers do that, theres no
reason they cant make
some noise in the conference
and in the league.
The 6-foot-5, 228-pound
Rivers has absorbed his fair
share of hits in recent years
he was sacked a career-
high 49 times for a loss of 311
yards in 2012 and at least 36
times in each of the last
three seasons but hes
avoided a knockout blow.
It also helps that Rivers,
a traditional pocket passer
who has averaged 28 carries
in11years as a starter, is not a
scrambling man.
Ive been reckless at
times with the football, but
Ive never felt like Ive played
reckless from the stand-
point of putting myself in po-
sition to take silly hits, Riv-
ers said before Thursdays
practice. There is a fine line.
If its third-and-four and
the game is on the line and
offensive coordinator Ken
down marker, Im probably
gonna lay out for it. But
there are times when you
know to throw the ball away
as opposed to gaining two
yards or slide as opposed to
trying to do something you
cant do.
Effective blocking up
front and the ability of a run-
ning back to pick up a blitz-
ing linebacker or defensive
back also would extend Riv-
ers shelf life.
A rebuilt line that fea-
tures three new starters
left tackle Russell Okung,
center Spencer Pulley and
right guard Kenny Wiggins
will get its first test Mon-
day against a Broncos de-
fense that features outside
linebacker Von Miller, who,
with Houstons J.J. Watt, is
considered one of the top
two pass rushers in the NFL.
The 6-3, 237-pound Miller,
a five-time Pro Bowl selec-
tion, can wreak havoc on an
offense, using his speed,
power, acceleration and
hand techniques to average
more than 12 sacks over six
seasons.
I know he gets a lot of at-
tention for the sacks and the
sack-fumbles, and rightfully
so, but hes an every-down
player, Rivers said. He
plays the run as good as any
linebacker in the league.
Hes a guy who can change
the game.
The Broncos move Miller
from side to side to create fa-
vorable matchups so at
some point you have to block
him one on one, Chargers
Whisenhunt said. You have
to do everything you can to
get help on him because he is
so disruptive.
Okung and tackle Joe
Barksdale will have their
hands full with Miller. Run-
ning back Melvin Gordon,
fullback Derek Watt and
tight ends Antonio Gates
and Hunter Henry might
have to chip in to keep Miller
away from Rivers.
Everybody has a plan to
slow down Von Miller, but it
doesnt seem to work, Char-
gers coach Anthony Lynn
said. Hes a great player.
Etc.
The Chargers will have
different captains every
week, with Lynn naming
them in the locker room
right before the game.
Everybody goes crazy, and
we go out, Lynn said. Its
just the way I like it. I think
certain guys step up each
week. Some people evolve as
leaders as the year goes on,
and I think its best to re-
ward guys and do it week by
week. Receiver Dontrelle
Inman (groin), defensive
end Jerry Attaochu (ham-
string) and tight end Sean
McGrath (knee) were lim-
ited participants in Thurs-
days practice. All are ex-
pected to play Monday.
Broncos cornerback Aquib
Talib (Achilles tendon) and
running back Jamaal
Charles (knee) did not prac-
tice Thursday. The Char-
gers signed tight end Brae-
don Bowman, a South Ala-
bama product who was re-
cently waived by New
Orleans, to their practice
squad and waived lineback-
er Joseph Jones.
mike.digiovanna@latimes.com
Twitter: @MikeDiGiovanna

COLLEGES

Commanding
locker room is
big challenge
[Rams, from D1]
youngest coach in modern
league history handled him-
self during a Super Bowl me-
dia blitz, the NFL scouting
combine and the owners
meetings.
Hall of Fame quarter-
back Troy Aikman praised
McVay for his football knowl-
edge and maturity, and for
demonstrating that he
could run an effective of-
fense with the Washington
Redskins.
Now he must prove some-
thing else.
Ive always felt, for me, if
I was hiring a head coach,
the first thing Id want to
know is that he could get in
front of 53 guys and com-
mand the room during diffi-
cult times, Aikman, an ana-
lyst for Fox, said shortly af-
ter McVay was hired. Be-
cause no matter how good
you are, theres going to be a
stretch of the season where
its a challenge.
So that would be the No.
1 requirement for me.
Former Dallas Cowboys
coach Jimmy Johnson, also
a Fox analyst, said he was
initially concerned about
McVays age. But McVays
background he is a grand-
son of former San Francisco
49ers executive John McVay
and his decision to sur-
round himself with experi-
enced coaches such as Wade
Phillips allayed those con-
cerns.
If youre a smart guy and
you can command a room,
Johnson said, it doesnt
make any difference how old
you are.
McVay worked as an as-
sistant under Jon and Jay
Gruden, Mike Shanahan
and Jim Haslett. Those ex-
periences, McVay said, pre-
pared him to take charge in
front of the team.
When things are not go-
ing well or somebody needs
to stand up and be that
strong voice and that leader
that everybody can rally be-
hind, I think Ive seen it from
those coaches and what it
looks like, he said. And
then weve got great exam-
ples of it on our staff here.
Rams players appeared
to embrace McVays football
knowledge and enthusiasm
through offseason workouts
and minicamps, training
camp and the four-game
preseason schedule.
McVays age has no bear-
ing on his ability to com-
mand the room, several
players said.
I dont think it makes
much of a difference, offen-
sive lineman Rob Ha-
venstein said. It still says
head coach in front of his
name.
Youre going to listen for
that reason, but also just be-
cause of the energy and the
focus.
Said offensive lineman
Jamon Brown: He has an
aura and a demeanor about
him. He gets your attention
once he walks in the room.
McVay, however, has no
experience as a head coach
at any level.
When Seattle Seahawks
coach Pete Carroll was 31, he
was a North Carolina State
assistant still a few years
from his first job as an NFL
assistant. He was 42 when he
was hired to coach the New
York Jets.
What an extraordinary
opportunity for the guy,
Carroll, 65, said of McVay. If
he can do it well and hang
with it and make it through
the years of formulating
your program and your phi-
losophy and all of that and
survive then he will prove
that he was worthy of it.
Arizona Cardinals coach
Bruce Arians, 64, knows
what its like to be a head
coach at 30.
Temple hired Arians in
1983. In six seasons there, he
had two winning seasons.
Arians spent the next 20-
plus years working as an
NFL and college assistant
before taking over as interim
coach of the Colts in 2012.
The Cardinals hired him in
2013.
McVay is on the right
track, Arians said.
Hire some good old guys
who know what theyre do-
ing and trust them so you
can do your job, Arians said.
Hes obviously very bright
to get the job. But hell do a
good job.
Jon Gruden believes Mc-
Vays charisma, energy and
intelligence will pull the
coach and the Rams
through tough times.
I dont think hes going
to buckle every time they
face adversity, Gruden said.
Gruden described Mc-
Vays assignment as a diffi-
cult job right now. The
Rams, he said, are not going
to contend for the Super
Bowl this season, so they
must strive for improve-
ment, especially from
quarterback Jared Goff.
That falls on the head
coach, through good times
and bad.
Youve got to keep your
own confidence level up,
Gruden said, because your
parents dont call you and
give you a hug every time you
get your butt kicked.
gary.klein@latimes.com
Twitter: @latimesklein
RAMS CORNERBACK Trumaine Johnson, returning an interception in a pre-
season game against the Raiders, was voted a team captain by the players.
RAMS REPORT
Phillips will finally have
his defense, minus Donald
By Gary Klein \
and Lindsey Thiry
Shrouded in injury-de-
pleted mystery during the
preseason, a near fully
stocked Rams defense will fi-
nally be on display in Sun-
days season opener against
the Indianapolis Colts.
Defensive coordinator
Wade Phillips is as curious
as anybody.
Im just waiting to kind novice when it comes to the
of see how we do, Phillips
said Thursday. I think
theres going to be good
things.
Phillips, 70, brought his
trademark 3-4 scheme to the
Rams but has not been able
to truly evaluate it.
Starting linebackers
Robert Quinn and Mark
Barron and cornerback
Kayvon Webster were held
out of preseason games to
make sure they would be
physically sound for the
opener. Others such as line-
man Michael Brockers and
linebacker Connor Barwin
were limited to two games.
And then, of course, there
is the Aaron Donald situa-
tion. The star lineman did
not participate in offseason
workouts, did not report to
training camp and remains a
holdout because of a con-
tract dispute.
Phillips, in his 40th NFL
season, has experienced
similar situations as a head
coach and coordinator.
Its disappointing that
hes not here for whatever
the reasons are, but Ive
been through it before too,
Phillips said. Youve got to
play with the guys you have.
We believe that we can
play well and thats what
were going to try to do.
Sean McVay continues to
say that he will not rule out
Donald possibly playing
against the Colts, showing
the first-year coach is no
sometimes laughable as-
pects of NFL gamesman-
ship.
Phillips has coached mul-
tiple Hall of Fame players
and such current NFL stars
as Houston Texans lineman
J.J. Watt and Denver Bron-
cos linebacker Von Miller.
If and when Donald re-
turns, Phillips will coach him
the same way.
You give them the op-
portunity to do what they do
well, he said, adding,
youve got to put them in a
position to be able to utilize
their talent, is all you have to
do.
Leader of the pack
Cornerback Trumaine
Johnson is attempting to
make the most of a disap-
pointing situation and
hes off to a noteworthy
start.
The Rams declined to
sign Johnson to a long-term
contract during the off-
season, but players voted
Ben Margot Associated Press
Johnson a team captain.
It shows you what a
great job hes done on focus-
ing on the things that he can
control, McVay said, add-
ing, Clearly we know what
type of talent he is but now I
think hes starting to bring
people with him.
Johnson is playing again
under the franchise tag and
will earn nearly $17 million.
He will become an unre-
stricted free agent after the
season.
Johnson, 27, said the cap-
tain designation was an
honor really coming from my
teammates and that he has
focused on just controlling
what I can control, day-in
and day-out.
Phillips said Johnson
could be among the elite
players at his position.
Hes come in here, done
everything we asked and a
little bit more, really,
Phillips said. And thats
what Ive been impressed
with. He works at what he
does, hes a smart player.
Hes athletic, he listens to
what were trying to teach
and he knows how to fit in
the defense.
Running back Todd Gur-
ley, left tackle Andrew
Whitworth, punter Johnny
Hekker, and linebackers
Connor Barwin and Alec
Ogletree also were voted
captains.
gary.klein@latimes.com
lindsey.thiry@latimes.com
Threatening
letter is sent
to the home
of Sumlin
wire reports
Texas A&M and law en-
forcement officials were in-
vestigating Thursday night
after football coach Kevin
Sumlin received a racist and
threatening letter at his
home.
His wife, Charlene Sum-
lin, posted a picture of the
letter, which had a return ad-
dress in Houston, on Twit-
ter. The handwritten letter,
which included a racial epi-
thet, read: You suck as a
coach! Youre a ... and cant
win! Please get lost! Or else.
On the post Charlene
added: People of 2017:
please tell me how any part
of this is OK? And to the
sender: did it occur to you
that a child may open it?
Texas A&M President
Michael Young and athletic
director Scott Woodward is-
sued a joint statement con-
demning the letter and add-
ing that they are: working
with law enforcement au-
thorities to bring the sender
of this letter to justice.
Texas A&M squandered
a 34-point third-quarter
lead in a season-opening 45-
44 loss to UCLA on Sunday
at the Rose Bowl.
Hurricane Irma
causes cancellations
No. 10 Florida State can-
celed its home game Sat-
urday against Louisiana
Monroe because of impend-
ing Hurricane Irma.
The cancellation Thurs-
day night came after Florida
Gov. Rick Scott ordered all
state colleges and universi-
ties closed through Monday
in order to support shelter
and emergency relief efforts.
Officials on Wednesday ini-
tially moved the start time
from 7 p.m. to noon.
The teams do not have
open dates on the same
week, preventing them from
rescheduling the game.
No. 22 Florida canceled
its Saturday home opener
against Northern Colorado
and No. 21South Florida and
Connecticut called off their
game that was scheduled for
Saturday in Storrs, Conn.
Utah State rolls
Quarterback Kent My-
ers completed 24 of 26 pas-
ses for 323 yards and two
touchdowns to lead Utah
State to a 51-13 victory over
visiting Idaho State.
Myers also rushed for 85
yards and two touchdowns.
He left early in the third
quarter with the Aggies (1-1)
ahead 45-6.
Ty Flanagan rushed for
106 yards and a score on 25
carries for the Bengals (1-1.)
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S F R I DAY , S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017 D5

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UCLA REPORT

Receivers were keys to success

WEEKEND VIEWERS GUIDE
Need some help deciding which college football games to
watch? Look no further. Each Friday, Times contributor
Chuck Schilken handicaps whats worth watching, and
skipping, on the weekends menu of games:
By Ben Bolch
FRIDAY
Josh Rosens eyes mo-
mentarily shifted toward the
Memphis (1-0) at television camera fixed on
Central Florida (1-0) him before UCLAs game Sun-
3:30 p.m., ESPNU day, the quarterback winking
as one corner of his mouth
UCLA fans can get an early look at Memphis, which hosts the curled into a smile.
Bruins on Sept. 16. This game was moved up a day because of It was as if he knew what
the threat of Hurricane Irma. Memphis backs Darrell Hen-
was about to happen and who
derson and Patrick Taylor Jr. combined for 300 yards rushing
was going to help make it pos-
against Louisiana Monroe last week, but quarterback Riley
sible.
Ferguson passed for only 97 yards. Central Floridas McKen-
Rosens career-best per-
zie Milton passed for 360 yards with four touchdowns and one
interception against Florida International. formance during the Bruins
crazy comeback victory over
5 p.m.: Oklahoma State at South Alabama, ESPN2; Ohio at Texas A&M was created in
Purdue, FS1. large part by the success of his
receivers.
Tight end Caleb Wilsons
SATURDAY MORNING
15 catches set a school record
and UCLA had three 100-yard
No. 17 Louisville (1-0) at receivers in a game for only
the second time in school his-
North Carolina (0-1) tory, joining a 2005 triumph Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
9 a.m., ESPN
over Arizona State. UCLA TIGHT END Caleb Wilson makes a catch against Texas A&M defensive
The Cardinals needed all of Heisman Trophy-winning Wilson finished the game back Armani Watts during the fourth quarter. He had a school-record 15 catches.
quarterback Lamar Jacksons 485 total yards and two with a career-high 203 yards
touchdown passes to pull off a comeback win over Purdue. receiving. Receiver Darren also got a boost from running NFL halftime.
The Tar Heels still have questions at quarterback Bran- Andrews set career highs back Soso Jamabo, who Pac-12 Commissioner
don Harris had two passes intercepted in last weeks loss to with 12 catches and 142 yards caught a swing pass in the fi- Larry Scott said Sunday
California, and coach Larry Fedora has yet to commit to him and tied another career high nal minute to convert a fourth that the condensed format
over Chazz Surratt for the start in this one. with two touchdown catches. down. Another improvement: helped Pac-12 Network view-
9 a.m.: Cincinnati at Michigan, Channel 7; Florida Atlantic Receiver Jordan Lasley had The Bruins dropped only ers catch the start of the USC-
at Wisconsin, Big Ten Network (Big Ten); Iowa at Iowa four catches for 100 yards, in- UCLA vs. Hawaii three passes after routinely Western Michigan game last
State, ESPN2; Northwestern at Duke, ESPNU; East Car- cluding the tying touchdown dropping at least twice that weekend after a close preced-
AT THE ROSE BOWL
olina at West Virginia, FS2; Charlotte at Kansas State, FS in the back of the end zone many during games last sea- ing game between Oregon
West; Buffalo at Army, CBS Sports Network (CBSSN); Ten- with 43 seconds left. Saturday, 2 p.m. son. State and Portland State.
nessee Martin at Mississippi, SEC Network (SEC). We needed it, UCLA TV: Pac-12 Networks Scott said the average game
9:30 a.m.: Jacksonville State at Georgia Tech, Prime. coach Jim Mora said of hav- Speed thrills? length involving Pac-12 teams
11 a.m.: Texas State at Colorado, Pac-12 Networks (Pac-12). ing three receivers with at most deceptive players he had If UCLAs game against was 3 hours 26 minutes.
least 100 yards. We wouldnt ever seen because of an ability Hawaii on Saturday at the In an ideal world, Scott
SATURDAY AFTERNOON have won without that. to get open when sometimes Rose Bowl seems unusually said, Id like to get closer to
Rosen enjoyed most of his you really have no idea how he zippy, it could be at least par- three hours than 312.
success in the fourth quarter, does it. Wilson routinely ex- tially by design.
Nebraska (1-0) at when he passed for 292 of his ploited the Aggies zone cov- The game is part of the Quick hits
491 yards and all four of his erage and displayed what Pac-12 Conferences pilot plan UCLA did not schedule a
Oregon (1-0) touchdowns. But Rosen and might be the surest hands on to shorten nonconference game at Hawaii as part of its
1:30 p.m., Channel 11
Wilson sparked UCLAs come- his team. games broadcast on the agreement to play the Rain-
After racking up 703 yards and 77 points against FCS oppo- back from a 34-point deficit Wilson credited his team- Pac-12 Networks. A variety of bow Warriors, disappointing
nent Southern Utah in coach Willie Taggarts debut last starting late in the third quar- mates confidence in him and measures will be imple- some of the Bruins. The guys
week, Oregon faces a Cornhuskers team that gave up 497 ter when Wilson pulled in a 24- battles with linebacker mented, including a halftime that are coming back next
yards in a 43-36 win over Arkansas State. Coach Mike Riley yard pass near midfield on the Kenny Young in the off- that is 15 minutes instead of year, theyre like, Dang, why
led Nebraska to a 35-32 victory over the Ducks last year after Bruins first touchdown drive season for a swift rise from his 20, a kickoff at 2:01 p.m. that cant we get to go to Hawaii
going 4-10 against them as coach at Oregon State. of the second half. On UCLAs onetime status as a walk-on at will be one minute into the next year? defensive end Ja-
next drive, Rosen completed a USC before transferring to broadcast window and re- cob Tuioti-Mariner said. So
No. 13 Auburn (1-0) at third-down pass underneath UCLA. duced time between quarters. its kind of a bummer that we
the coverage to Wilson, one of They always believed in UCLA and Hawaii had to dont get to go there. UCLA
No. 3 Clemson (1-0) three consecutive plays in me, Wilson said. If I dropped agree to the shortened half- distributed about 1,000 free
4 p.m., ESPN which they connected for first a pass in practice, they would time format beforehand. tickets to the Hawaii game as
downs. be like, Youre better than Doesnt matter, its irrele- a result of its Hurricane Har-
New Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant set a team opening-
Wilson later made a 26- that, Caleb, thats not like vant, Mora said of losing five vey relief campaign offer.
day record with 313 yards of total offense against Kent State
yard catch when facing a you. I think my team really minutes at halftime. NFL is
last week. Kamryn Pettway, Auburns leading rusher last
fourth-and-three situation. pushed me. 12-minute halftimes, so its ben.bolch@latimes.com
year, will be back after a one-week suspension. He may be
joined by Kerryon Johnson, who rushed for 136 yards and a Rosen called Wilson one of the UCLAs receiving corps three minutes longer than an Twitter: @latbbolch
touchdown before leaving with an injury in the second quar-
ter against Georgia Southern.

No. 5 Oklahoma (1-0) at

No. 2 Ohio State (1-0)
4:30 p.m., Channel 7
Western Michigan was a surprise to Trojans
[USC, from D1]
J.T. Barrett passed for four touchdowns in Ohio States 45- Michigan, which ran for 263
24 win over Oklahoma last year. Baker Mayfield passed for yards. How accurately USC
two touchdowns and had two interceptions in that game, has diagnosed its problems
but he and the Sooners havent lost since. Both quarter- and how quickly it addresses
backs passed for three touchdowns and more than 300 them will help determine a
yards in their teams openers crucial game Saturday 6 USC (1-0) vs.
against Stanford, a notori-
No. 15 Georgia (1-0) at ously physical running team. 14 Stanford (1-0)
The first explanation is AT THE COLISEUM
No. 24 Notre Dame (1-0)
4:30 p.m., Channel 4 simple: Western Michigan is Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
just plain good on the ground. TV: Channel 11
Freshman quarterback Jake Fromm will make his first col- Theyre no joke, Gustin
lege start after coming in for injured starter Jacob Eason and said.
leading Georgia to victory over Appalachian State. Bulldogs The second explanation predictions. They didnt ex-
running backs Nick Chubb and Sony Michel combined for also portends well. The Tro- pect to see much 12 person-
nearly 200 yards in that game, but Notre Dames defense had jans rely heavily on Smiths ex- nel: one running back and two
11 tackles for loss, by 10 players, against Temple. perience to align their de- tight ends. They were wrong.
fense. USC struggled most They threw something
No. 14 Stanford (1-0) at acutely without him. that weve never seen before,
No. 6 USC (1-0) But one concern lingers. Smith said. They went a lot of
5:30 p.m., Channel 11 USCs defensive players say 12 personnel and we werent
they werent manhandled, expecting that at all. So we
It has been 10 years since the Cardinals most improbable just out of place. They hadnt didnt practice it at all.
upset over 41-point favorite USC. Trojans quarterback Sam planned for many of the sets Helton said that defensive
Darnold is still looking for his first touchdown pass of the that Western Michigan ran. In coordinator Clancy Pender-
season. Deontay Burnett had seven catches for 142 yards other words, they had months gast did have a package for
against Western Michigan, but coach Clay Helton counted to get prepared, and they wer- 12 personnel, and USC did
four dropped passes by USC receivers in that game. Stan- ent. practice sparingly for it.
fords Bryce Love rushed for 180 yards against Rice. Smiths absence com- Wish it wouldve been
12:30 p.m.: Fresno State at Alabama, ESPN2; Pittsburgh at pounded the alignment is- more, he said.
Penn State, Channel 7; Texas Christian at Arkansas, Chan- sues. And the performance Gustin called defending
nel 2; Tulane at Navy, CBSSN; Western Michigan at Michi- highlighted how crucial he has the Broncos kind of a guess-
gan State, Big Ten; Indiana State at Tennessee, SEC; Indi- become to the defense. West- ing game.
ana at Virginia, ESPNU. ern Michigans yards per at- But its also true that West-
1 p.m.: Central Michigan at Kansas, FS West. tempt dipped by 1.5 yards ern Michigan used other,
2 p.m.: Hawaii at UCLA, Pac-12. from the first half to the sec- more typical formations for
ond, a 25% decline. most of the game. And it still
4 p.m.: South Carolina at Missouri, ESPN2; Nichols State at
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times Smith is responsible for ran the ball effectively.
Texas A&M, ESPNU.
USC LINEBACKER Porter Gustin, left, had a communicating play calls, di- The Trojans should bene-
4:30 p.m.: Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech, CBSSN.
would-be interception slip through his hands. agnosing offenses and calling fit from familiarity with Stan-
5 p.m.: Montana at Washington, Pac-12; Western Kentucky
out the strong side. Some- ford. They know what the Car-
at Illinois, Big Ten; Texas San Antonio at Baylor, Prime.
The Times picks times hes given two defenses dinal wants to do: use big bod-
and must pick the right one ies to create space for their
SATURDAY EVENING Each week, the Los Angeles Times contingent of college based on the offenses forma- running backs. They pound
football experts its how they refer to themselves tion. So its like being a the ball on the ground.
will make choices on a variety of games. Warning: If they quarterback, coach Clay Stanford also runs enough
Boise State (1-0) at could accurately predict results, they wouldnt be report- Helton said. Its like having to two tight-end packages that
No. 20 Washington St. (1-0) ers or editors. Their picks: call the audible. USC can remain in its base de-
7:30 p.m., ESPN Angel David Mike Ben Zach Without Smith, Gustin fense, with three linemen.
Rodriguez Wharton Hiserman Bolch Helfand said, the whole defense was USC used a nickel defense
Cougars quarterback Luke Falk passed for four touch- Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville thrown off. Were just all com- heavily against Western Mich-
downs against Boise State last year. He threw for three N. Carolina 38-21 35-28 42-38 38-28 45-31 fortable as one unit, Gustin igan, with only two linemen.
touchdowns and completed his first 20 passes against FCS W. Mich. Mich. St. Mich. St. W. Mich. W. Mich. Mich. St. said. Weve been with him ... But Stanford also changes
opponent Montana State last week. Broncos quarterback Mich. St. 30-21 31-23 28-27 30-28 24-23 for a long time now. formations often. Helton said
Brett Rypien, who had one touchdown and three inter- Nebraska Oregon Oregon Oregon Nebraska Oregon Smiths replacement, Jor- that Stanford used six per-
ceptions against Washington State in 2016, shared playing Oregon 49-17 45-30 35-31 35-31 38-24 dan Iosefa, played well, sonnel groups in its first 10
time with Kansas transfer Montell Cozart last week. Hawkins and Smith said. But plays in its opener. Stanford
Stanford Stanford USC Stanford USC USC
USC 28-24 24-21 31-28 24-17 28-25 he lacked experience. He re- coach David Shaw, Helton
San Diego State (1-0) at Auburn Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson Clemson lied on help to make the right said, has always done a good
Arizona State (1-0) Clemson 34-17 28-20 38-31 42-24 35-28 calls and adjustments. job of keeping you off base.
Oklahoma Oklahoma Ohio St. Ohio St. Ohio St. Ohio St. Hawkins had to act like his ed- That type of coaching gave
8 p.m., Pac-12
Ohio St. 28-17 30-23 41-31 28-21 37-31 itor, revising as necessary. USC fits against Western
Rashaad Penny rushed for 197 yards in 21 carries, including a Georgia NDame NDame NDame Georgia Georgia When Cams in there, I dont Michigan. Come Saturday,
61-yard touchdown run, in the Aztecs 38-17 win over FCS op- NDame 27-24 24-17 24-13 24-21 21-20 have to do that, Hawkins Hawkins pledged, Well be
ponent UC Davis. Sun Devils quarterback Manny Wilkins Utah BYU Utah Utah Utah BYU said. I know he knows exactly ready for it.
passed for 300 yards and two touchdowns but was sacked BYU 20-13 21-14 27-17 30-24 27-21 what hes doing.
seven times during a 37-31 win over New Mexico State. Boise St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Wash. St. Still, USC should be able to Quick hit
Wash. St. 34-21 35-24 38-34 38-25 41-34 function without Smith. But Helton said that injured
7 p.m.: Minnesota at Oregon State, FS1. S.D. St. S.D. St. Ariz. St. S.D. St. S.D. St. S.D. St. the turnover of almost the en- offensive tackle Chuma
7:15 p.m.: Utah at Brigham Young, ESPN2. Ariz. St. 35-31 27-20 30-27 24-21 28-27 tire offensive staff at Western Edoga turned a corner, and I
7:30 p.m.: Houston at Arizona, ESPNU. PROGNOSTICATING RECORDS Michigan left USC with a expect him to play.
problem. USC didnt know
Last week 8-2 8-2 6-4 8-2 6-4
charles.schilken@latimes.com what offense it would see. zach.helfand@latimes.com
Twitter: @chewkiii Season 8-2 8-2 6-4 8-2 6-4 The Trojans made some Twitter: @zhelfand
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BASEBALL

NL STANDINGS
West
DODGERS
Arizona
W
92 48 .657
82 58 .586
L Pct. GB

10

L10
1-9
10-0
Parkers persistence pays off
Colorado 75 65 .536 17 4-6 past a decade of scuffling along in
San Diego 63 78 .447 2912 6-4 He made Angels opening obscurity, Parker pointed across
the Angels clubhouse to Mike
San Francisco 55 87 .387 38 3-7 roster for the first time at Trout, the teams superstar center
Central W L Pct. GB L10
Chicago 77 63 .550 7-3
age 32 and has had a fielder.
He knows, deep down in his
St. Louis 72 68 .514 5 7-3
surprising season. heart, that hes good, Parker said.
Milwaukee 72 68 .514 5 5-5 I feel like Im the same way. Obvi-
By Pedro Moura ously, Im not on Trouts talent lev-
Pittsburgh 67 74 .475 1012 4-6 el, but I know deep down that I am
Cincinnati 61 80 .433 1612 6-4 The boy had quit baseball, say- good enough to do this. Even
East W L Pct. GB L10 ing he no longer found it fun. He though you dont think so, I do,
Washington 86 54 .614 7-3 preferred other activities that can even though Im just a nobody from
fill an 8-year-olds time away from Arkansas.
Miami 67 73 .479 19 1-9
school. Parker thought of an August
Atlanta 62 77 .446 2312 5-5 But while spending this sum- night in Washington when he
New York 61 79 .436 25 4-6 mer with his mother and stepfa- heard a heckler shout to Trout that
Philadelphia 53 87 .379 33 4-6 ther in Anaheim, young Jude re- Bryce Harper was better than him.
vealed that he was again inter- I mean, OK, he never said he
Wild card W L Pct. GB L10 ested. was better than Harper, Parker
Arizona 82 58 .586 +7 10-0 He didnt really say why, but he said. Thats your opinion. But
offered a hint late one evening in with him, with anybody, you cant
Colorado 75 65 .536 4-6
July as he sipped an Icee at his let that get to you. Because once
Milwaukee 72 68 .514 3 5-5 stepfathers locker at Angel Sta- that starts to diminish your own
St. Louis 72 68 .514 3 7-3 dium. confidence in yourself, youre
Blake, Jude said, addressing screwed.
Thursdays results Angels relief pitcher Blake Parker. Its like that quote about the
Colorado 9, at DODGERS 1 Im just so glad youre in the big Jeffrey McWhorter Associated Press boat, how the water is all on the
Chicago 8, at Pittsburgh 2 leagues. RELIEVER Blake Parker has been living in an RV this summer outside and it stays above the wa-
at Washington 4, Philadelphia 3 Whys that? Parker asked as with his wife and stepson within a mile of Angel Stadium. ter. Once it gets in, the boat sinks. If
at New York 7, Cincinnati 2 he tied his shoes and readied to you let it all bounce off you, youll be
at Atlanta 6, Miami 5 head home. sometimes he was hurt, and some- by allowing a late home run, he fine. But once it affects you, youre
at San Diego 3, St. Louis 0 Because we get stuff, Jude times he pitched without confi- replied, You should quit gam- done, slowly but surely.
said, referring to the drink he had dence. Now, as a product of his bling, its a bad habit, and sent A few winters ago, Parkers par-
nabbed from the clubhouse past, Parker possesses a sense of along the national gambling ents persuaded him to undergo a
kitchen. self-reliance rare among his major helpline. hair-replacement operation. It did
AL STANDINGS Jude appreciates the present. league contemporaries. I want them to know that I see not work as intended, and it left
West W L Pct. GB L10
Parker, 32, knows the struggles of Rather than purchase coffee them, I hear them, but it doesnt him with a significant scar span-
the past. Over the last decade, hes each day, he makes his own cold bother me, he said. I guess it ning the back of his head in the
Houston 86 53 .619 8-2
pitched in places such as Hawaii, brew, buying beans in bulk, soak- gives me my own satisfaction. I shape of a toothless smile. Its vis-
ANGELS 72 68 .514 14 2 1
6-4 Mexico and Iowa. Last winter ing them in water for 24 hours, and try to be funny with it, and at the ible when hes not wearing a cap,
Texas 70 69 .504 16 6-4 alone, he was claimed off waivers filtering out the grounds. Hes left same time take the edge off and and he takes it off each time he
Seattle 69 71 .493 1712 3-7 three times. with a fresh pitcher every day, and joke around. takes the mound, showing the scar
His surprise season with the he leaves it in the clubhouse He acts the same way toward as he faces second base and prays.
Oakland 59 80 .424 27 2-8 Angels started March 22, when he kitchen for all to enjoy. his teammates. In mid-May, as fel- Parker prefers not to discuss
Central W L Pct. GB L10 started striking out everyone. Be- This spring, he purchased an low reliever Cam Bedrosian neared the operation, but he understands
Cleveland 84 56 .600 10-0 tween that afternoon and opening RV in case he needed to shuttle be- a month on the disabled list for an why people ask. He doesnt let it
Minnesota 73 67 .521 11 6-4 day, Parker recorded 17 outs, all tween triple A and the majors. unexpectedly severe groin injury, flood his boat.
strikeouts. Only one hitter he faced Rather than sign a short-term Parker trolled him. Heres what I take away from
Kansas City 69 70 .496 1412 5-5 reached base. It was spring train- lease, he figured hed just live on Bro, he began, waiting until that deal, said his father, Richard.
Detroit 59 80 .424 2412 3-7 ing, sure, but it was a stretch of the road. Instead, he and his wife, Bedrosian looked at him. Are you I take the fact that he doesnt care
Chicago 54 85 .388 2912 2-8 dominance typically unseen near Jordan, along with Jude, have ever gonna pitch again this year? about the scar; he doesnt care
East W L Pct. GB L10
the sports highest level, and it se- spent the season parked within a Yes, I am, Bedrosian said. what happened. He keeps his hair
cured Parker his first opening-day mile of Angel Stadium. When? Parker asked. In Sep- short and hes not afraid to take off
Boston 79 61 .564 6-4
roster spot. To limit their exposure to nega- tember? his hat. Thats what I love about
New York 75 64 .540 312 5-5 Now, wielding a tight splitter tivity, at least two of his teammates Now, his teammates are repay- Blake. Im telling you, I love the kid
Baltimore 71 69 .507 8 6-4 and firm fastball velocity, Parker have deleted their Twitter ac- ing him. Late-inning relievers often because he just doesnt worry
Tampa Bay 70 71 .496 912 6-4 has 76 strikeouts in 61 innings, a counts or removed the application work out later than other members about it.
team-best 2.36 earned-run average from their phones. Parker em- of the bullpen, and last week as
Toronto 64 76 .457 15 3-7 and a 0.85 walks-plus-hits-per-in- braces it. On a few late nights this Parker took the field for a stretch- Short hop
Wild card W L Pct. GB L10 nings-pitched (WHIP), which is season, he has opened the app to ing session in Texas before a game Albert Pujols has a bone bruise
New York 75 64 .540 +212 5-5 tied for sixth among major league respond to fans ripping him, un- against the Rangers, Bedrosian in his sore left knee. Team doctor
Minnesota 73 67 .521 6-4 relievers. usual behavior for a pro athlete in and Jesse Chavez were headed the Steven Yoon administered a lubri-
The way he pitched in spring 2017. When one fan wrote that opposite direction, having already cating injection into the knee, and
ANGELS 72 68 .514 1 6-4
training, Angels manager Mike Parker had the worst beard he had finished their workout. Pujols, 37, has been cleared to play
Baltimore 71 69 .507 2 6-4 Scioscia said, we didnt know how ever seen, Parker retweeted it with- See you in the ninth, closer, Friday in Seattle.
Texas 70 69 .504 212 6-4 he hadnt been in the big leagues out comment to his 4,000 followers. they said in unison, as they headed
for 10 years. To another man who com- back to the clubhouse. pedro.moura@latimes.com
Tampa Bay 70 71 .496 312 6-4
Sometimes he was unlucky, plained that Parker cost him $1,000 To explain how he proceeded Twitter: @pedromoura
Kansas City 69 70 .496 3 2
1
5-5
Seattle 69 71 .493 4 3-7

Thursdays results
New York 9, at Baltimore 1 CUBS 8 METS 7 BRAVES 6 PADRES 3
Cleveland 11, at Chicago 2
Minnesota 4, at Kansas City 2 PIRATES 2 REDS 2 MARLINS 5 CARDINALS 0
Albert Almora Jr. hit a two-run homer, Rookie cleanup hitter Brandon Nimmo Kurt Suzuki capped a two-run rally in Brad Hand struck out Dexter Fowler
Ian Happ had three hits and Chicago, homered twice, Juan Lagares added a the ninth inning when he lined a single with the bases loaded in the ninth
TODAYS GAMES after scoring only four runs in the first solo shot and New York won for the past third base to score Freddie Free- inning, preserving the shutout after
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
three games of the series, busted out third time in four games, ending Cin- man, who was intentionally walked and giving up singles to Stephen Piscotty,
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME
for 13 hits, eight for extra bases. cinnatis three-game winning streak. moved to second on a groundout. Randal Grichuk and Carson Kelly.
COL/Marquez (R) 10-6 4.26 7 p.m.
Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. San Diego AB R H BI Avg.
Dodgers/Darvish (R) 8-11 4.11 SNLA Happ cf-lf 5 2 3 0 .259 Marte lf 3 1 0 0 .257 Ervin cf 2 1 1 1 .400 Reyes ss 5 0 1 2 .236 Gordon 2b 5 1 2 0 .302 Inciarte cf 4 1 2 0 .310 Fowler cf 4 0 0 0 .257 Margot cf 3 1 2 0 .266
PHI/Thompson (R) 1-1 4.50 4 p.m. Bryant 3b 5 0 1 0 .288 c-Osuna 1 0 0 0 .246 Cozart ss 4 0 1 0 .305 Aoki rf 4 0 1 0 .279 Stanton rf 4 1 1 0 .282 Albies 2b 4 0 1 2 .279 Bader lf 4 0 2 0 .326 Asuaje 2b 2 1 1 0 .277
WAS/Scherzer (R) 13-5 2.19 Rizzo 1b 2 2 2 2 .280 Moroff 2b 3 0 1 0 .195 Votto 1b 4 0 1 0 .313 Cabrera 3b 4 1 2 0 .266 Yelich cf 3 1 1 1 .287 F.Frman 1b 3 1 0 0 .317 DeJng ss 4 0 2 0 .284 Pirela rf-lf 3 0 1 1 .292
Zobrist 2b 4 1 1 0 .233 MCtchn cf 4 1 1 0 .275 Duvall lf 3 0 0 1 .251 Cecchini 2b 1 0 0 0 .208 Ozuna lf 5 1 2 2 .307 Kemp lf 4 1 1 1 .286 Mrtinz 1b 4 0 1 0 .310 Solarte 3b 4 0 1 0 .255
CIN/Garrett (L) 3-6 7.41 4 p.m. Frman 2b 0 0 0 0 .077 Bell 1b 5 0 0 1 .259 Gennett 2b 4 0 1 0 .298 Nimmo lf 4 3 3 3 .283 Rlmuto 1b 5 0 1 0 .273 L.Adams lf 1 0 0 0 .263 Molina c 4 0 0 0 .276 Myers 1b 4 1 2 2 .241
NY/Lugo (R) 5-4 5.00 Shwrbr lf 3 0 0 0 .199 Luplow rf 4 0 1 1 .206 Suarez 3b 4 0 0 0 .271 Lagares cf 4 1 1 1 .265 Andrsn 3b 3 1 2 1 .280 K.Suzuki c 4 0 2 1 .258 Pisctty rf 4 0 2 0 .247 Spgnbrg lf 3 0 0 0 .269
Almora cf 2 1 1 2 .288 Rdrgz 3b 2 0 0 0 .175 Schebler rf 4 1 2 0 .238 Smith 1b 3 1 1 1 .191 Ellis c 3 0 0 0 .200 Ruiz 3b 4 1 1 0 .214 Garcia 2b 3 0 1 0 .246 Yates p 0 0 0 0 ---
MIA/Urena (R) 12-6 3.71 4:30 p.m. Baez ss 5 1 1 1 .270 Diaz c 4 0 1 0 .250 Turner c 3 0 0 0 .147 Plawecki c 4 1 1 0 .238 Aviles ss 2 0 0 0 .250 Swanson ss 4 1 2 0 .240 d-Grichk 1 0 1 0 .241 Hand p 0 0 0 0 .000
ATL/Foltynewicz (R) 10-11 4.75 Heyrd rf 4 1 2 1 .259 Mercer ss 4 0 1 0 .253 Mahle p 2 0 0 0 .167 Rnlds 2b 1 0 0 0 .209 Dietrich 1 0 0 0 .243 Peterson rf 4 0 2 2 .196 Mejia 3b 2 0 0 0 .143 Aybar ss 4 0 1 0 .227
MIL/Nelson (R) 11-6 3.59 5 p.m. Rivera c 3 0 1 1 .236 Taillon p 2 0 2 0 .152 Adleman p 0 0 0 0 .103 Harvey p 2 0 0 0 .069 Straily p 2 0 0 0 .041 Newcomb p 1 0 0 0 .043 b-Valra 2b 1 0 1 0 .200 Hedges c 3 0 0 0 .206
Lester p 3 0 1 1 .167 a-Bostick lf 2 0 1 0 .143 Chacin p 0 0 0 0 --- a-Taijeron 1 0 1 0 .105 Moore 1 0 0 0 .210 Johnson 1 0 0 0 .000 e-Voit 1 0 0 0 .245 Richard p 2 0 1 0 .132
CHI/Lackey (R) 11-10 4.74 b-Jay 1 0 0 0 .287 Totals 34 2 8 2 b-Vincej 1 0 0 0 .000 Familia p 1 0 0 0 .000 I.Suzuki 1 0 1 1 .259 M.Adms 1 0 1 0 .274 Lynn p 2 0 0 0 .059 a-Blash 1 0 0 0 .213
PIT/Williams (R) 6-7 4.14 5:15 p.m. Totals 37 8 13 8 Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals 34 7 11 7 Rojas ss 0 0 0 0 .258 Markakis 0 1 0 0 .283 c-Pham 1 0 0 0 .310 Stammen p 0 0 0 0 .500
Chicago 111 120 200 8 13 0 Cincinnati 110 000 000 2 6 0 Totals 35 5 10 5 Totals 35 6 12 6 f-Kelly 1 0 1 0 .184 Szczur rf 1 0 0 0 .225
STL/Weaver (R) 4-1 2.50 Totals 36 0 11 0 Totals 30 3 9 3
Pittsburgh 001 000 010 2 8 0 New York 010 222 00x 7 11 0 Miami 300 000 110 5 10 1
SD/Lyles (R) 0-2 6.71 6:30 p.m. Atlanta 020 020 002 6 12 1 St. Louis 000 000 000 0 11 1
a-lined out for Sanchez in the 7th. b-lined out for Grimm in the a-singled for Harvey in the 5th. b-grounded out for Chacin in the
ARI/Corbin (L) 13-11 3.83 8th. c-struck out for Neverauskas in the 9th. 7th. WalksMiami 5: Stanton 1, Yelich 2, Anderson 1, Aviles 1. Atlanta San Diego 100 000 20x 3 9 0
WalksChicago 3: Rizzo 2, Zobrist 1. Pittsburgh 6: Marte 1, WalksCincinnati 1: Ervin 1. New York 6: Aoki 1, Nimmo 1, Smith 3: Inciarte 1, F.Freeman 2. StrikeoutsMiami 9: Stanton 1, Yelich 1, a-out on fielders choice for Richard in the 6th. b-singled for Mejia
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Moroff 2, McCutchen 1, Rodriguez 2. StrikeoutsChicago 8: Happ 1, 1, Reynolds 3. StrikeoutsCincinnati 6: Cozart 1, Duvall 1, Gennett Ozuna 2, Realmuto 2, Dietrich 1, Straily 2. Atlanta 8: Albies 2, in the 7th. c-lined out for Lynn in the 7th. d-singled for Garcia in the
Bryant 1, Zobrist 2, Baez 2, Rivera 1, Lester 1. Pittsburgh 9: Osuna 1, 1, Suarez 1, Schebler 2. New York 6: Aoki 1, Smith 2, Reynolds 1, F.Freeman 1, Kemp 1, Ruiz 2, Swanson 1, Peterson 1. EGordon (11), 9th. e-struck out for Valera in the 9th. f-singled for Tuivailala in the
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME
McCutchen 1, Bell 2, Luplow 3, Diaz 2. LOBChicago 7, Pittsburgh Harvey 1, Familia 1. LOBCincinnati 5, New York 9. 2BErvin (2), Albies (2). LOBMiami 9, Atlanta 9. 2BAlbies (6), M.Adams (21). 9th.
Angels/Nolasco (R) 6-12 5.08 7 p.m. 11. 2BHapp 2 (16), Bryant (33), Zobrist (18), Baez (21), Heyward Schebler 2 (22), Cabrera (26), Nimmo (5), Plawecki (5). 3BGordon (7), Ozuna (2), Inciarte (4). HRKemp (18), off Straily. WalksSt. Louis 1: Fowler 1. San Diego 3: Asuaje 1, Spangenberg
SEA/Leake (R) 8-12 4.14 FS West (12), Lester (3), Luplow (2), Diaz (9), Mercer (23), Bostick (1). HRNimmo (2), off Adleman; Lagares (3), off Adleman; Nimmo (3), RBIsYelich (72), Ozuna 2 (109), Anderson (1), I.Suzuki (16), Albies 1, Hedges 1 StrikeoutsSt. Louis 11: Fowler 2, DeJong 1, Martinez 1,
DET/Farmer (R) 3-2 7.18 4 p.m. HRAlmora (6), off Sanchez. RBIsRizzo 2 (102), Baez (68), off Chacin. RBIsErvin (7), Duvall (94), Reyes 2 (44), Nimmo 3 2 (15), Kemp (58), K.Suzuki (41), Peterson 2 (13). SBYelich (13), Molina 2, Piscotty 1, Garcia 1, Voit 1, Lynn 2. San Diego 4: Pirela 2,
Heyward (49), Rivera (29), Lester (6), Almora 2 (35), Bell (83), (14), Lagares (14), Smith (13). SBErvin (2). SFDuvall. Inciarte (21). SFAlbies. SEllis, Newcomb. DPMiami 1, Atlanta Myers 1, Szczur 1. EMejia (1). LOBSt. Louis 10, San Diego 9.
TOR/Stroman (R) 11-6 3.08 Luplow (7). SFRizzo. SRivera. GIDPSchwarber, Diaz. RISPCincinnati 1 for 10; New York 2 for 9. Runners moved 2. 2BDeJong (20), Solarte (15). HRMyers (25), off Oh. RBIsPirela
BAL/Miley (L) 8-11 4.91 4 p.m. DPChicago 1 (Baez, Zobrist, Rizzo); Pittsburgh 1 (Moroff, Mercer, upMahle, Lagares, Plawecki. GIDPVotto, Cabrera. DPCincinnati Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA (38), Myers 2 (66). SBMargot (14), Myers (18). SAsuaje,
Bell). 1 (Gennett, Cozart, Votto); New York 1 (Cecchini, Reyes, Smith). Straily .........................5 7 4 3 2 3 98 3.95 Pirela.DPSt. Louis 1 (Fowler, DeJong); San Diego 2 (Asuaje, Aybar,
CLE/Clevinger (R) 8-5 3.50 Ellington......................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 5.73
Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Myers), (Solarte, Asuaje, Myers).
TB/Archer (R) 9-8 3.76 4 p.m. Lester, W, 10-7.............6 5 1 1 4 5 111 4.35 Mahle, L, 0-2 ...............4 6 3 3 4 2 72 3.60 Garcia ........................23 1 0 0 0 1 10 4.50 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Grimm ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 16 4.98 Adleman .....................1 3 2 2 1 1 29 5.41 Steckenrider ................13 0 0 0 0 1 4 2.49 Lynn, L, 10-7 ...............6 6 1 1 3 3 118 2.94
BOS/Pomeranz (L) 14-5 3.36 Barraclough, H, 22........1 1 0 0 0 2 22 2.88
Wilson ........................1 2 1 1 1 2 23 3.42 Chacin ........................1 2 2 2 0 1 22 9.00 Duke ..........................0 1 1 1 0 0 3 6.30
NY/Tanaka (R) 11-10 4.54 5 p.m. Pena...........................1 1 0 0 1 2 23 6.00 Stephens.....................2 0 0 0 1 2 25 3.86 Ziegler, L, 1-4 ..............23 3 2 2 1 0 19 5.04 Oh..............................1 1 1 1 0 0 15 3.83
TEX/Perez (L) 11-10 4.87 MLB Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Tuivailala .....................1 1 0 0 0 1 11 2.88
Taillon, L, 7-6.............423 11 6 6 1 3 78 4.78 Harvey, W, 5-4..............5 5 2 2 1 1 74 5.82 Newcomb ....................5 7 3 3 3 5 94 4.38 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
MIN/Santana (R) 14-7 3.35 5:15 p.m. Smoker, H, 3................1 0 0 0 0 3 12 5.59 Sims, H, 1 ...................1 0 0 0 0 0 8 5.59 Richard, W, 7-13 ..........6 5 0 0 1 5 93 4.78
Sanchez....................213 1 2 2 1 3 34 9.82
KC/Kennedy (R) 4-10 5.37 Benoit.........................1 1 0 0 0 1 10 4.65 Familia........................2 1 0 0 0 1 23 5.17 S.Freeman, H, 10 .........23 0 1 1 2 0 16 2.94 Stammen, H, 8.............1 2 0 0 0 2 19 3.16
Neverauskas ................1 0 0 0 1 1 18 3.38 Ramos ........................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.50 Ramirez ....................113 3 1 0 0 1 24 2.20 Yates, H, 17.................1 1 0 0 0 2 26 4.09
HOU/McHugh (R) 2-2 3.25 7 p.m. Brothers, W, 3-3 ...........1 0 0 0 0 3 13 6.50
Inherited runners-scoredSanchez 1-0. WPLester, Pena. HBPHarvey (Ervin). Hand, S, 16-21 ............1 3 0 0 0 2 18 2.41
OAK/Cotton (R) 7-10 5.53 HBPStraily (K.Suzuki). T3:23. Tickets sold23,561 HBPLynn (Margot). T3:03. Tickets sold21,334 (42,302).
URoberto Ortiz, Chris Guccione, Dana DeMuth, Paul Nauert. UJerry Layne, Dan Bellino, Marvin Hudson, Shane Livensparger.
T3:13. Tickets sold19,201 (38,362). T2:38. Tickets sold21,274 (41,922). (41,500).
INTERLEAGUE >>>
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME
YANKEES 9 NATIONALS 4
SF/Moore (L) 4-13 5.42 5 p.m.
CHI (AL)/ Giolito (R) 2-1 2.25
INDIANS 11 TWINS 4 PHILLIES 3
ORIOLES 1
WHITE SOX 2 ROYALS 2
Aaron Judge and Chase Headley each Trea Turner capped Washington's
The American League Central leaders Jorge Polanco drove in the go-ahead
LEADERS hit two-run homers and Didi Gregorius
set a franchise record with their 15th runs against ailing Royals closer Kelvin
three-run sixth inning with a two-run
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> had three hits and scored twice for the single, helping the NL East leaders to
Yankees, who closed to within 312 consecutive victory, getting another Herrera with two outs in the ninth their fourth consecutive victory. Team-
Not including late Dodgers-Colorado game
Player G AB R H Avg. games of the AL East-leading Red Sox. terrific outing from staff ace Corey inning. Herrera, who is dealing with a mate Adam Lind had two hits.
Blackmon Col .................137
JuTurner DODGERS ..........112
561
397
124
64
191 .340
130 .327 New York AB R H BI Avg. Baltimore AB R H BI Avg.
Kluber and belting five home runs. mild forearm strain, blew a 2-1 lead.
Harper Was ....................106 402 92 131 .326 Gardner lf 3 2 2 0 .258 Beckhm ss 3 0 2 0 .291 Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. Wash. AB R H BI Avg.
DMurphy Was .................128 478 85 153 .320 Wade lf 0 0 0 0 .135 Mchdo 3b 4 0 0 0 .271 Cleve. AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Hrndz 2b 4 1 1 0 .289 Turner ss 4 0 1 2 .275
Posey SF........................122 431 55 137 .318 Headley 1b 4 1 1 2 .279 Flahrty 3b 0 0 0 0 .242 Lindor ss 6 3 3 1 .270 Sanchez 3b 4 1 1 1 .262 Dozier 2b 4 0 0 1 .260 Mrrifld 2b 402 1 .286 Galvis ss 4 0 1 1 .257 Difo 3b 4 0 1 0 .281
LeMahieu Col .................132 522 85 165 .316 Bird 1b 1 0 0 0 .147 Schoop 2b 4 0 1 0 .306 Jackson lf 3 1 1 1 .310 Moncada 2b 3 0 0 0 .183 Mauer 1b 3 0 3 0 .306 Cain cf 401 0 .297 Herrera cf 3 0 2 0 .291 Murphy 2b 3 0 1 0 .320
Goldschmidt Ari ..............135 484 102 152 .314 Castro 2b 5 1 1 1 .313 Jones cf 4 1 2 0 .280 Allen lf 2 1 1 2 .250 Abreu 1b 4 1 1 1 .296 Polanco ss 3 0 2 2 .262 Cabrera rf 401 0 .296 Hoskins lf 4 0 0 0 .296 Zmrmn 1b 4 0 0 0 .302
Votto Cin........................141 489 95 153 .313 Grgrius ss 5 2 3 1 .292 Mncini lf 3 0 0 0 .290 Diaz 3b 2 1 0 0 .255 Delmonico lf 3 0 0 0 .284 Rosario lf 5 0 1 0 .285 Orlando rf 000 0 .175 Williams rf 4 0 1 0 .274 Lind lf 3 1 2 0 .303
Seager DODGERS............124 461 75 143 .310 Torreyes ss 0 0 0 0 .295 Davis 1b 3 0 1 0 .223 Usla 3b 1 0 0 0 .224 Garcia rf 3 0 0 0 .322 Buxton cf 5 0 0 0 .249 Hosmer 1b 302 0 .317 Joseph 1b 3 1 1 1 .239 c-Robles 1 0 0 0 .000
Pham StL.......................108 374 78 116 .310 Judge rf 4 2 1 2 .276 Sntnder 1b 1 0 0 0 .167 Ecrncn dh 3 1 2 3 .256 Liriano rf 0 0 0 0 .154 Kepler rf 3 1 1 0 .247 Perez c 400 0 .263 d-Franco 1 0 0 0 .222 Taylor cf 4 1 1 0 .262
Holliday dh 4 0 1 1 .229 Trumbo dh 3 0 0 0 .244 Mjia dh 1 0 1 0 .286 Davidson dh 3 0 0 0 .224 EEscbr 3b 4 0 0 0 .253 Mstaks dh 300 0 .278 Crawford 3b 4 0 0 0 .091 Wieters c 4 1 1 1 .235
Home Runs Sntna 1b 4 0 0 0 .260 Narvaez c 3 0 1 0 .269 Castro c 4 0 2 0 .230 A.Escobar ss 3 1 1 0 .243 Alfaro c 4 1 1 1 .355 De Aza rf 1 0 1 1 .179
b-Austin dh 1 0 0 0 .226 Alvrz dh 1 0 0 0 .000
Stanton, Miami................................................................ 53 Ellsbury cf 5 0 1 1 .258 Smith rf 3 0 0 0 .269 Naquin rf 0 0 0 0 .222 Saladino ss 3 0 0 0 .192 1-Granite 0 1 0 0 .231 Gordon lf 312 1 .200 Nola p 2 0 1 0 .073 a-Kndrk lf 1 1 1 0 .327
Bellinger, DODGERS.......................................................... 36 Frazier 3b 3 1 1 1 .210 Hays rf 1 0 0 0 .000 Chsnhll rf 5 0 3 0 .305 Engel cf 3 0 0 0 .167 Gimenez c 0 0 0 0 .206 Torres 3b 300 0 .239 Blanco 1b 2 0 0 0 .195 Roark p 2 0 0 0 .083
Runs Batted In Romine c 4 0 2 0 .220 Joseph c 3 0 1 0 .272 Gomes c 5 1 2 0 .229 Totals 29 2 3 2 Grsmn dh 3 2 1 1 .248 Totals 31 2 9 2 Totals 35 3 8 3 b-Btista rf 2 0 1 0 .286
Stanton, Miami .............................................................. 112 Totals 39 9 13 9 Totals 33 1 7 0 Zimmr cf 5 1 1 0 .246 Totals 34 4 10 4 Totals 33 4 10 4
Arenado, Colorado.......................................................... 112 Gnzlz 2b 4 2 2 4 .281 Minnesota 000 010 003 4 10 0 Philadelphia 001 110 000 3 8 1
New York 302 201 100 9 13 1 Totals 41 11 16 11
Pitching Baltimore 000 001 000 1 7 0 Kansas City 000 020 000 2 9 0 Washington 010 003 00x 4 10 1
Cleveland 412 000 301 11 16 0 1-ran for Castro in the 9th. a-walked for De Aza in the 6th. b-singled for Roark in the 6th.
Kershaw, DODGERS ....................................................... 16-2 WalksNew York 3: Gardner 2, Judge 1. Baltimore 2: Beckham 1, Mancini Chicago 200 000 000 2 3 1
Greinke, Arizona ............................................................ 16-6 1. StrikeoutsNew York 9: Headley 1, Castro 2, Judge 2, Holliday 2, Frazier 1, WalksMinnesota 5: Mauer 2, Polanco 1, Kepler 1, Grossman 1. c-flied out for Kintzler in the 7th. d-struck out for Morgan in the 8th.
Romine 1. Baltimore 8: Mancini 2, Davis 2, Alvarez 1, Smith 1, Joseph 2. WalksCleveland 4: Jackson 1, Diaz 1, Encarnacion 1, Santana 1. Kansas City 1: Hosmer 1. StrikeoutsMinnesota 7: Dozier 1, Rosario WalksPhiladelphia 1: Herrera 1. Washington 3: Murphy 1, De
EGregorius (8). LOBNew York 7, Baltimore 7. 2BGardner (21), Chicago 2: Moncada 1, Delmonico 1. StrikeoutsCleveland 6: 2, Buxton 1, E.Escobar 2, Castro 1. LOBMinnesota 10, Kansas City Aza 1, Kendrick 1. StrikeoutsPhiladelphia 9: Hernandez 1, Hoskins
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Encarnacion 1, Chisenhall 1, Gomes 2, Zimmer 2. Chicago 14:
Gregorius 2 (25), Ellsbury (13), Jones (24), Joseph (13). HRJudge (39), off 4. 2BMauer (31), Polanco (28), A.Escobar (28). HRGrossman 2, Williams 2, Joseph 1, Franco 1, Alfaro 1, Blanco 1. Washington 11:
Player G AB R H Avg. Sanchez 2, Moncada 1, Abreu 1, Delmonico 3, Garcia 2, Davidson 2, (9), off Gaviglio. RBIsDozier (81), Polanco 2 (62), Grossman (38), Turner 1, Difo 1, Murphy 2, Zimmerman 1, Lind 1, Taylor 2, Wieters 2,
Gausman; Headley (12), off Wright; Castro (14), off Hart; Frazier (23), off
Altuve Hou .....................133 521 95 183 .351 Rodriguez. RBIsHeadley 2 (56), Castro (55), Gregorius (67), Judge 2 (87), Saladino 1, Engel 2. EEngel (2). LOBCleveland 9, Chicago 2. Merrifield (66), Gordon (39). SBKepler (6). CSA.Escobar (5). Roark 1. EJoseph (8), De Aza (2). LOBPhiladelphia 6,
AGarcia ChW ..................114 435 60 140 .322 2BJackson (15), Chisenhall (16), Gomes (15), Zimmer (15). SFDozier. SPolanco. GIDPGrossman, Cain, Perez, Moustakas, Washington 8. 2BHernandez (24), Herrera (37), Taylor (21),
Hosmer KC.....................139 523 83 166 .317 Holliday (56), Ellsbury (37), Frazier (63). SBGardner (19). DPNew York 2
3BLindor (3). HREncarnacion (33), off Pelfrey; Lindor (27), off Torres. DPMinnesota 4 (Dozier, Polanco, Mauer), (Dozier, Polanco, Wieters (19). HRAlfaro (2), off Roark; Joseph (21), off Roark.
Reddick Hou...................121 432 72 135 .312 (Frazier, Castro, Headley), (Castro, Headley); Baltimore 1 (Schoop, Beckham,
Pelfrey; Gonzalez (3), off Pelfrey; Allen (1), off Fry; Gonzalez (4), off Mauer), (Gibson, Polanco, Mauer), (Dozier, Mauer); Kansas City 1 RBIsGalvis (58), Joseph (66), Alfaro (7), Turner 2 (36), Wieters
Ramirez Cle....................135 525 93 162 .309 Davis).
New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Brantly; Sanchez (10), off Kluber; Abreu (28), off Kluber. (Torres, Merrifield, Hosmer). (50), De Aza (6). SBDifo (9), Taylor (13). DPPhiladelphia 2
Mauer Min .....................121 447 59 137 .306 RBIsLindor (71), Jackson (31), Encarnacion 3 (85), Gonzalez 4 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Schoop Bal ....................138 536 86 164 .306 Gray, W, 9-9...............523 6 1 0 2 5 102 3.22 (Crawford, Hernandez, Joseph), (Hernandez, Galvis, Blanco);
Green .......................113 1 0 0 0 2 21 1.93 (11), Allen 2 (5), Sanchez (47), Abreu (84). SBDiaz (1). Gibson ........................7 8 2 2 1 0 95 5.19 Washington 1 (Turner, Murphy, Zimmerman).
Andrus Tex .....................135 559 91 170 .304 SFGonzalez. DPCleveland 1, Chicago 1. Hildenberger, W, 3-2......1 1 0 0 0 0 6 2.43 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Segura Sea ....................109 456 70 138 .303 Kahnle ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2.77
Heller..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 12 0.00 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Belisle, S, 6-9 ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 14 4.44 Nola.........................513 7 3 2 2 8 106 3.71
Home Runs Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kluber, W, 15-4 ............7 3 2 2 1 13 96 2.56 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mrgn, L, 3-2, BS, 1-1 ..123 2 1 1 1 2 32 4.21
KDavis, Oakland .............................................................. 39 Gausman, L, 10-10.......3 5 5 5 3 4 79 4.99 Armstrong....................1 0 0 0 0 0 9 4.38 Gaviglio.......................5 4 1 1 3 3 77 4.41 Garcia.........................1 1 0 0 0 1 8 2.67
Judge, New York ............................................................... 39 Wright.........................2 3 2 2 0 2 40 5.65 Breslow .......................1 0 0 0 1 1 12 4.76 Alexander, H, 7 ..........123 1 0 0 0 1 15 2.12 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Hart ...........................23 3 1 1 0 0 20 3.19 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Moylan, H, 20..............13 0 0 0 0 0 4 3.83 Roark, W, 12-9.............6 7 3 3 1 6 100 4.48
Runs Batted In Pelfrey, L, 3-11 .............4 8 7 7 3 4 96 5.51 Minor, H, 15 ................1 1 0 0 0 1 14 2.82
Rodriguez ..................113 2 1 1 0 1 29 12.27 Kintzler, H, 8 ................1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.73
Cruz, Seattle.................................................................. 104 Beck.........................223 3 1 1 1 2 53 6.28 Hrera, L, 3-3, BS, 4-30..23 3 3 3 2 1 22 4.24 Madson, H, 20 .............1 1 0 0 0 2 13 1.58
Schoop, Baltimore.......................................................... 102 Yacabonis....................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 3.65
Givens ........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.60 Fry ...........................113 4 2 2 0 0 21 21.60 Maurer........................13 1 0 0 0 1 15 6.11 Doolittle, S, 19-20 ........1 0 0 0 0 1 16 2.84
Pitching Brantly ........................1 1 1 1 0 0 12 9.00 Inherited runners-scoredMaurer 2-0. HBPGibson
Inherited runners-scoredGreen 2-0, Rodriguez 1-0. HBPWright WPRoark, Nola. PBAlfaro (1).
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L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
Dodgers have lost 12 of 13
[Dodgers, from D1]
Kershaw might end a six-game los-
ing streak. Instead he extended it
to seven. He permitted four runs,
including a stunning, three-run
home run in the first inning, and
his teammates failed to provide
him any support. The Dodgers had
won 16 games in a row started by
Kershaw. Consider that another
anecdote in this wretched chapter
of the season.
In his second start since return-
ing from the disabled list, Kershaw
wore all the rust he had appeared
to shake off during his outing last
week in San Diego. His pace was
ragged. His command was impre-
cise. He walked three batters in an
86-pitch outing that ended with
two outs in the fourth. Brock Stew-
art gave up two runs in the fifth.
Three more runs scored thanks to
a seventh-inning combustion by
relievers Edward Paredes and Josh
Ravin.
The loss slimmed the Dodgers
lead over Arizona in the National
League West to 10 games. The pro-
jection systems still consider the
Dodgers a lock to clinch this
month. Those systems also predict
the Dodgers to win more than one
game this month, and that second
win has proved elusive.
Our guys are upset right now,
manager Dave Roberts said.
Theyre frustrated. Trying to fig-
ure out how to win one game, when
a few weeks ago it seemed like there
was nothing we could do to lose a
game.
There are melancholy times. In-
side the clubhouse before the
game, the playlist burbled with soft
rock. The Fray discussed how to
save a life. Jason Mraz promised
not to give up. Michael Buble in-
sisted the best is yet to come. John
Mayer dreamed with a broken
heart. All they were missing was
Bob Marley swearing that every-
thing was going to be all right.
The losing had not dimmed
Roberts sense of humor. As a
group of reporters crowded around
Roberts in the dugout before the
game, Adrian Gonzalez lobbed a
question from the railing.
Are you the best manager in
the world? Gonzalez said.
I was about 10 days ago! Rob-
erts cracked.
The humor did not translate
into the game. Colorado hounded
Kershaw in the first inning.
Rockies outfielder Charlie Black-
mon led off with a single. Second
baseman D.J. LeMahieu whacked
a double into left. Blackmon held
at third base, setting the table for
third baseman Nolan Arenado.
Kershaw pounds right-handed
hitters like Arenado with fastballs
on the inner half of the plate. He
tried a first-pitch heater, but it
drifted down the middle. Arenado
hammered a three-run shot into
the Dodgers bullpen. The homer
elicited a gasp from the fans.
It happened quickly, Roberts
said.
Earlier in the summer, the Dod-
Season is spiraling out of control
[Plaschke, from D1]
virtually assured of a National
League West championship and
home-field advantage throughout
the playoffs, but theyre not
playing like it.
The Dodgers are still in control,
but it feels like they are losing it.
It was bad before Thursday, 11
losses in 12 games, but Clayton
Kershaw was pitching and the
Dodgers had won his last 16 con-
secutive starts and
And now, it is worse. Now, its
getting serious. Kershaw gave up
three runs on his first 14 pitches,
gave up four runs in less than four
innings, and when he threw his
glove against the dugout wall, all of
Dodger Stadium seemingly rattled
with the thud.
Kershaw was messy, the Dod-
gers focus was stunning ly care-
less while playing behind their ace,
and the nosediving Rockies man-
aged a 9-1 victory amid loud boos,
consistent grumbling, and the
rising of a real and imminent fear.
As recently as late August, the
Dodgers were 91-36 and on a pace
to win a major league record-tying
116 games.
They have since gone 1-12, and,
while that might be a small sample
size, its still big enough to make
one wonder.
While the Dodgers have gotten
worse, the leagues other elite
teams have gotten better. Their
2112- game division lead over the
Arizona Diamondbacks has been
shockingly reduced to 10 games.
As the Washington Nationals and
Chicago Cubs are also rising, the
Dodgers air of invincibility and
intimidation is all but disappear-
ing.
Before Thursdays game, I
asked Manager Dave Roberts if
there would be a time when he
could legitimately begin to worry.
There is a time, he said. But benefit anyone, Roberts said. It
not Sept. 7.
OK, how about Sept. 8?
The team is in the middle of
what has essentially been a
month-long spring training as
management has smartly taken
advantage of the giant cushion in
the standings to rest and test and
GERARDO PARRA of the Rockies beats the tag of Yasmani
Grandal of the Dodgers to score in the third inning.
ROCKIES
DODGERS
Streak Lost 7 This month 1-7
Home 52-20 Road 40-28
Division 32-29 Interleague 16-4
Next: Tonight vs. Colorado, Dodger Stadium, 7
TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020
Colorado AB R H BI Avg. Dodgers AB R H BI Avg.
Blkmn cf 3 1 2 0 .342 Taylor ss 3 0 2 0 .305
LMahu 2b 5 1 1 0 .315 Segedin 3b 1 0 0 0 .143
fAmrsta 2b 1 0 0 0 .234 Grdrsn lf 2 0 0 0 .208
Arndo 3b 3 1 2 4 .305 Thmpsn rf 1 0 0 0 .114
gMcMn 3b 1 0 0 0 .133 Bellinger 1b 4 1 2 0 .272
Rnlds 1b 5 0 2 0 .272 Grandal c 4 0 0 0 .252
Parra lf 4 1 1 1 .330 Puig rf 3 0 1 1 .257
Story ss 5 1 2 0 .227 Culbrsn ss 1 0 0 0 .000
Gnzlz rf 5 2 3 1 .251 Pedersn cf 1 0 0 0 .217
1-Tpia rf 0 0 0 0 .274 c-Barnes 2b 1 0 0 0 .292
Lucroy c 4 1 2 2 .253 Frsythe 3b 3 0 0 0 .228
Gray p 2 0 0 0 .097 h-Dicksn 1 0 0 0 .000
b-Valka 1 1 1 0 .251 Utley 2b 2 0 0 0 .230
Dunn p 0 0 0 0 --- d-Hrndz lf 2 0 1 0 .213
e-Tchmn 1 0 0 0 .200 Kershaw p 1 0 0 0 .163
Oberg p 0 0 0 0 --- a-Verdugo 2 0 0 0 .143
Totals 40 9 16 8 lf-cf
Totals 32 1 6 1
Colorado 301 020 300 9
Dodgers 000 100 000 1
a-lined out for Stewart in the 5th. b-singled for Gray in the 7th.
c-struck out for Pederson in the 7th. d-doubled for Utley in the 7th.
e-grounded out for Dunn in the 8th. f-struck out for LeMahieu in the
9th. g-grounded out for Arenado in the 9th. h-struck out for Buehler
in the 9th. 1-ran for Gonzalez in the 8th.
WalksColorado 6: Blackmon 3, Arenado 2, Parra 1. Dodgers 3:
Granderson 1, Pederson 1, Barnes 1. StrikeoutsColorado 12:
Blackmon 1, LeMahieu 2, Amarista 1, Reynolds 2, Story 2, Gonzalez
2, Gray 2. Dodgers 8: Segedin 1, Thompson 1, Bellinger 1, Grandal 1,
Culberson 1, Barnes 1, h-Dickson 1, Utley 1. ETaylor (11).
LOBColorado 12, Dodgers 7. 2BLeMahieu (26), Story (25),
Bellinger 2 (21), Puig (19), Hernandez (21). HRArenado (31), off
Kershaw; Gonzalez (9), off Paredes. RBIsArenado 4 (116), Parra
(66), Gonzalez (47), Lucroy 2 (35), Puig (63). SFLucroy. SGray.
Runners left in scoring positionColorado 7 (LeMahieu, Reynolds
2, Story 2, Gonzalez, Gray); Dodgers 3 (Grandal, Forsythe, Verdugo).
RISPColorado 3 for 14; Dodgers 1 for 5. GIDPStory, Lucroy.
DPDodgers 2 (Utley, Taylor, Bellinger), (Bellinger, Culberson,
Buehler).
Colorado IP H R ER BB SO
Gray, W, 7-4.................6 4 1 1 2 3
Dunn ..........................1 1 0 0 0 1
Oberg .........................1 1 0 0 0 2
Ottavino ......................1 0 0 0 1 2
Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Kershaw, L, 16-3 ........323 6 4 4 3 7
Stewart .....................113 3 2 2 1 0
Morrow .......................1 2 0 0 0 0
Paredes.......................0 4 3 3 0 0
Ravin ..........................1 0 0 0 2 3
Buehler .......................2 1 0 0 0 2
WPKershaw. PBGrandal (15).
T3:35. Tickets sold51,492 (56,000).
gers sneered at three-run deficits.
The offense wreaked havoc on op-
posing pitchers. Each night offered
a new hero. A sizable disconnect
exists between those days and the
configure the team for October.
But somewhere along the line,
the players have begun acting like
it really is spring training, swing-
ing for the fences and fielding with
their heads in the stands. The
Dodgers somehow need to redis-
cover their urgency before the
playoffs begin.
Were not playing for results,
results are byproducts of how we
go about our day, how we prepare,
Roberts said. Honestly, the re-
sults havent been great, but the
mind-set is still the same.
Well, it didnt seem that way
later Thursday night, the Dodgers
making an error, allowing a run on
a passed ball, walking in two runs,
and giving up at-bats that they
once filled with fight.
Again, the Dodgers have still
had an historic summer, and one
might be tempted to compare
their situation to the 2000 New
York Yankees, who lost 13 of their
last 15 games, but went 11-5 in the
postseason while eventually win-
ning the World Series.
One big difference. That team
had already won three World
Series championships in the previ-
ous four years and the players
knew how to prepare. These Dod-
gers have endured nothing but
playoff failure in the previous four
years, so can any of them really
afford to fill September with calis-
thenics?
The Dodgers have spent the
last month throwing a variety of
odd and sometimes ill-equipped
lineups while allowing guys to
nurse injuries that normally would
not sideline them, all in the name
of being ready for the playoffs, and
the intent was initially a good one.
For us to put ourselves in the
situation to run the same guys out
there through September makes
no sense to anyone and doesnt
was very clear what our goal is at
the start of this season, theres a
process we believe in, and while we
want to win every single game, we
still havent wavered on the ulti-
mate goal, and we have to see this
thing through.
That was all well and good,
BASEBALL
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
present. In their previous six
9 losses, the Dodgers had managed
only two runs a game. Each night
1 offers a new goat.
And the deficit would not stay
at three for long.
Kershaw did not operate with
pristine command. He had looked
so dominant against the hapless
Padres last week, breezing through
six innings in 70 pitches. He could
not replicate that efficiency on
Thursday. His fastballs sailed high.
His curveballs landed in the dirt.
His sliders could not fool his oppo-
nents.
Its not my job to diagnose it,
Kershaw said. Just to see the re-
sults, and not like it.
With two outs in the second,
Kershaw walked Blackmon. He
gave up a line drive to LeMahieu.
The ball veered toward Chris Tay-
16 0 (96-66)
6 1 lor at shortstop. He dropped it.
The error extended the inning.
Kershaw walked Arenado before
recovering to strike out Mark
Reynolds. He needed 55 pitches to
collect six outs.
Kershaws luck did not improve
in the third. After a leadoff single by
outfielder Gerardo Parra, short-
stop Trevor Story swung late at a
slider. A popup sailed into right
field into a swath of grass va-
cated by Yasiel Puig, who had been
shifted toward center. Puig slid in
NP ERA
107 4.07 vain, the ball hopped by him and
16 4.79 Story received credit for a ground-
18 5.33
23 5.25 rule double. Parra scored two bat-
NP ERA
86 2.15 ters later on a sacrifice fly.
18 3.68 Kershaw could not complete
9 2.48
18 3.68 the fourth. He raged after he left
21 4.11 the diamond. He sat inside the
26 0.00
dugout, helpless to stem the tide of
losing.
Its bad right now, Kershaw
said. Theres no getting around
that.
andy.mccullough@latimes.com
Twitter: @McCulloughTimes
until the process began exposing
questions and concerns that there
might not be time to find answers.
Do they have the starting
pitching?
Kershaw is still obviously work-
ing back into shape after missing
five weeks with a back injury. Alex
Wood, seemingly tiring, is search-
ing for a return of his good stuff. Yu
Darvish, maddeningly inconsis-
tent, is searching for his delivery.
Do they have the bullpen setup
guys for closer Kenley Jansen?
Those guys have an ERA above
5.00 during this losing skid. They
were counting on Pedro Baez, but
probably no more. Others have
been shaky. Who will get the ball to
the ninth inning?
Is Corey Seagers elbow fine,
and can Cody Bellinger stay
strong in the most extended
playing time of his young career?
Because of injuries, those two guys
in the heart of the Dodgers offense
havent played together since Aug.
19. Since that time, they have gone
5-14, which is not a coincidence.
They need them both.
What about the rest of the
opportunistic offense? Do these
guys who were so amazing during
the long slow stretches of the
season rediscover their magic
under the lights of autumn? Justin
Turner, Chris Taylor, Yasmani
Grandal. Logan Forsythe, Enrique
Hernandez, Curtis Granderson
and others seem to be occasionally
lost and increasingly frustrated.
Maybe this team that won so
many games with so many rotat-
ing lineups and a dugout full of
questions finally needs to settle on
the best group and begin running
it out there every day.
As we get into September and
into October, youll see the best 25
players out there, Roberts said.
Bellinger and Seager are finally
scheduled to start together Fri-
day. Darvish, Wood and Rich Hill
are slated to start during the
weekend.
A good time for the Dodgers to
show their best would be, like, now.
bill.plaschke@latimes.com
Twitter: @BillPlaschke
S F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
ARE THE DODGERS STILL
CHAMPIONSHIP WORTHY?
With their 9-1 loss to Colorado on Thursday, the Dodgers are 1-12 in their
last 13 games, but still have the best record in baseball. Heres a look at
how the Dodgers compare with the last 10 World Series winners when it
comes to worst stretches over 13 games, longest losing streaks and Sep-
tember/October regular-season records:
2017 Dodgers (92-48)
8 Days in first place: 87
8 Largest lead: 21 games
8 Most games over .500: 55
8 Longest losing streak: seven
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 1-12
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 1-7
2016 Chicago Cubs (103-58)
8 Days in first place: 180
8 Largest lead: 19 games
8 Most games over .500: 45
8 Longest losing streak: five
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 4-9 (June
30-July 16)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 18-11
2015 Kansas City Royals (95-67)
8 Days in first place: 164
8 Largest lead: 1412 games
8 Most games over .500: 31
8 Longest losing streak: four
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 4-9 (Aug.
30-Sept. 13)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 15-17
2014 San Francisco Giants (88-74,
wild-card team)
8 Days in first place: 96
8 Largest lead: 10 games
8 Most games over .500: 22
8 Longest losing streak: six
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 3-10 (June
9-June 23)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 13-12
2013 Boston Red Sox (97-65)
8 Days in first place: 164
8 Largest lead: 912 games
8 Most games over .500: 34
8 Longest losing streak: three
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 4-9 (April
30-May 14)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 16-9
2012 San Francisco Giants (94-68)
8 Days in first place: 94
8 Largest lead: 11 games
8 Most games over .500: 27
8 Longest losing streak: five
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 5-8 (July
22-Aug. 6)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 20-10
KANSAS CITY won the 2015 World Series despite playing
under .500 in the final month of the season.
DODGERS REPORT
Gonzalez to sit after
injection in his back
By Andy McCullough
Adrian Gonzalez received a
pain-killing epidural injection for
the herniated disk in his back as
part of the Dodgers attempt to get
him ready for the postseason.
Gonzalez will not be available
for a few days as the team waits for
the medicine to take effect, man-
ager Dave Roberts said before
Thursdays game against the Col-
orado Rockies. Gonzalez has ap-
peared in only two games this
month, and he struggles to get
loose on a consistent basis.
On Wednesday, Roberts said
that Gonzalezs injury could keep
him off the playoff roster for the Na-
tional League division series. Gon-
zalez is unlikely to start at first
base, with Cody Bellinger ex-
pected to play on a daily basis. The
Dodgers had hoped Gonzalez
could aid the team as a hitter off the
bench.
Hopefully, this formula, the
treatment, the rest and all of that,
will help and get him back on the
field, Roberts said.
Gonzalez has been sidelined
with injuries for most of the season.
He dealt with elbow inflammation
upon his arrival at spring training.
D7
Houston Mitchell
2011 St. Louis Cardinals (90-72,
wild-card team)
8 Days in first place: 73
8 Largest lead: 312 games
8 Most games over .500: 18
8 Longest losing streak: seven
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 3-10 (June
8-22)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 18-8
2010 San Francisco Giants
(92-70)
8 Days in first place: 38
8 Largest lead: 3 games
8 Most games over .500: 23
8 Longest losing streak: seven
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 3-10 (June
19-July 2)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 19-10
2009 New York Yankees
(103-59)
8 Days in first place: 91
8 Largest lead: 1012 games
8 Most games over .500: 46
8 Longest losing streak: five
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 4-9 (April
24-May 7)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 20-10
2008 Philadelphia Phillies
(92-70)
8 Days in first place: 95
8 Largest lead: 4 games
8 Most games over .500: 22
8 Longest losing streak: six
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 3-10 (June
10-24)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 17-8
2007 Boston Red Sox
8 Days in first place: 172
8 Largest lead: 1112 games
8 Most games over .500: 31
8 Longest losing streak: four
8 Worst 13-game stretch: 5-8 (May
30-June 13)
8 Record in Sept./Oct.: 16-11
Source: baseball-reference.com
houston.mitchell
@latimes.com
Twitter: @latimeshouston
Al Bello Getty Images
His back flared up early in the
regular season. After avoiding the
disabled list for his entire career,
Gonzalez missed time with injuries
on two occasions this summer.
His lack of production might be
tied to his health. Gonzalez has
hit only two home runs this season.
He is batting .248 with a career-
worst .640 on-base plus slugging
percentage. During his first four
full seasons as a Dodger, his OPS
was .809.
Seager in the field
Sidelined since Aug. 29 with in-
flammation in his elbow, Corey
Seager is expected to return to
shortstop Friday.
Seager had insisted he could
play through his discomfort, but
the Dodgers hoped to prevent fur-
ther damage to his arm. He did not
throw a baseball for a week until he
started a throwing program Mon-
day.
An MRI on his elbow revealed
problems, Seager said last week-
end in San Diego.
He is likely to be re-examined in
the offseason and could require mi-
nor surgery.
andy.mccullough@latimes.com
Twitter: @McCulloughTimes
D8 F R I DAY , S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017 L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RTS

THE DAY IN SPORTS

USC-Boermeester case is cited by DeVos

But because of the failed system, Clevelands newest basketball Ramos was best known for his Thursday at 79. Obituary, B7
staff and wire reports
university administrators told her star chose not to share much infor- 1963 fight at Dodger Stadium with
they knew better. mation about a hip injury that Davey Moore in which he won the Kings first-round draft pick
Education Secretary Betsy De- USC disputed that account. ended his playoff run last season featherweight title for the first Gabriel Vilardi is expected to miss
Vos, who said Thursday that the The school filed a court document and will sideline him for the start of time. It was the only fight card held rookie camp and training camp be-
system for handling sexual as- in August that said Katz had this season and probably a lot at the ballpark, and it was deadly. cause of a back strain.
saults on college campuses is bro- changed her story. The filing said longer. Ramos had been battered by the Curtis Zupke
ken and, used without naming Katz, referred to as Jane Roe, ini- At his introductory news con- champion in early rounds but
him Matt Boermeester and tially confirmed witnesses version ference, Thomas deferred specific came back to stop him in the 10th. George Parros, who spent al-
USCs investigation into allega- of events and reported she often questions about his hip to new Moore left the ring on his own but most a decade as an NHL enforcer,
tions against him, as an example. had bruises on her legs or arms Cavaliers general manager Koby lost consciousness in his dressing is now in charge of the leagues
DeVos outlined her plans to re- from petitioner [Boermeester] be- Altman, who said the team has a room and slipped into a coma. player safety department. After a
view some of the controversial cause he would hit or grab her rehab plan in place for the All-Star He died two days later, sparking career in which he fought 159 times
Obama-era guidelines for investi- tightly when he was angry. point guard. The only glimpse an outcry about the safety of box- and racked up 1,127 penalty min-
gating sexual assaults during a Boermeester is scheduled for a about Thomas timetable came ing and prompting then-California utes, Parros said theres one major
speech at George Mason Uni- show-cause hearing Friday in Los when Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue Gov. Pat Brown to call for the sport reason hell succeed as the new vice
versity in Virginia. She included an Angeles County Superior Court, said, Isaiahs not going to be start- to be banned. president of player safety. I played
anecdote about a disturbing case where a judge is expected to rule on ing the season. Five years earlier in Cuba the game as physically as anybody
in California between an athlete whether to reverse his expulsion. Ramos had stopped a fighter and I never once was fined or sus-
and his girlfriend. Zach Helfand Lexi Thompson shot a nine- named Jose Blanco, who also died. pended, he said. Parros spent
USC expelled Boermeester af- under 63 on to take a one-shot lead Ramos, whose real name was nine seasons with the Kings, Col-
ter a school investigation found he over Sandra Gal and Kris Tamulis Ultiminio Ramos, lived in Mexico orado Avalanche, Ducks, Florida
had put his hands around the neck ETC. in the LPGAs Indy Women in Tech after fleeing Cuba. Ramos, who Panthers and Montreal Canadi-
of his girlfriend, Zoe Katz, and
pushed her into a wall. Katz said Cavs Thomas to sit Championship in Indianapolis. started boxing professionally at
age 15, retired in 1972 with a record
ens. ... Nashville defenseman Ryan
Ellis will need a full six months to
Title IX Office investigators ig-
nored her assertion that Boer- out start of season Sugar Ramos, the Cuban
featherweight champion whose
of 55-7-4 with 40 knockouts. recover from offseason knee
surgery. General manager David
meester never abused her. fists led to two ring deaths has died Gene Michael, a shortstop who Poile says the Predators dont ex-
The young woman repeatedly Isaiah Thomas beamed as he in Mexico City. He was 75. He died went on to manage the New York pect him back until possibly 2018. ...
assured campus officials she had held up his new No. 3 Cavaliers jer- Sunday from cancer complica- Yankees and then as an executive The Ducks said individual tickets
not been abused nor had any mis- sey for the first time, but theres no tions, the World Boxing Council built them into a power that won for regular-season home games
conduct occurred, DeVos said. telling when hell wear it in a game. said. four World Series in five years, died will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

THE ODDS GOLF HIGH SCHOOL

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Baseball at Idaho 612 (7012) UNLV At IndianapolisPar 72 Thursdays Results
National League Brickyard Crossing Golf Club6,599 yards SOUTHERN SECTION
at Oregon St. 2 (5112) Minnesota
Favorite Underdog 18-Hole Leaders NONLEAGUE
at Arizona St. 312 (5412) San Diego St Lexi Thompson......................32-3163 -9 Aquinas 42, Crean Lutheran 13
at DODGERS -188 Colorado +173 Utah 2 (45) at BYU Kris Tamulis ..........................32-3264 -8 Artesia 40, Rosemead 27
at Chicago -137 Milwaukee +127 Houston 1 (6912) at Arizona Sandra Gal...........................31-3364 -8 Banning 78, Desert Hot Springs 33
at Washington -325 Philadelphia +295 Moriya Jutanugarn .................32-3365 -7 Bellflower 47, Magnolia 20
at Wash. St. 1012 (5712) Boise St. Lydia Ko ..............................33-3265 -7 CSDR 28, Nuview Bridge 22
at New York -109 Cincinnati -101 Candie Kung.........................32-3466 -6 Katella 31, Esperanza 6
Miami -109 at Atlanta -101
Pro Football Nanna Koerstz Madsen...........32-3466 -6 Montebello 48, Whittier 40
at ST. Louis -173 Pittsburgh +161 Sunday Amy Olson ...........................33-3366 -6 Orange 46, Garden Grove Santiago 7
Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog Marina Alex ..........................34-3367 -5 Rim of the World 12, San Bernardino 6 (OT)
at Arizona -245 San Diego +225 Cristie Kerr ...........................32-3567 -5
at RAMS 4 (42) Indianapolis Rubidoux 30, La Sierra 27
American League Peiyun Chien ........................33-3467 -5
Marissa L Steen ....................35-3267 -5 Santa Margarita 61, Alemany 7
Favorite Underdog at Buffalo 8 2 (40)
1
N.Y. Jets Savanna 35, Bolsa Grande 7
Atlanta 6 (49) at Chicago Olafia Kristinsdottir ................33-3467 -5
at Seattle -113 ANGELS +103 Thidapa Suwannapura............32-3567 -5 Tustin 27, Riverside Notre Dame 9
at Toronto -215 Detroit +195 at Houston 6 (39 2)
1
Jacksonville Brooke M. Henderson.............33-3467 -5 Warren 51, Buena Park 20
Philadelphia 1 (48) at Washington Ashleigh Buhai......................34-3367 -5 8 MAN
at Boston -127 Tampa Bay +117 SOUTHERN SECTION
Arizona 2 (47 2)
1
at Detroit Chella Choi ..........................32-3567 -5
at Cleveland -155 Baltimore +145 Madeleine L Sheils ................32-3567 -5 NONLEAGUE
New York -145 at Texas +135 at Tennessee 212 (5012) Oakland Kim Kaufman........................33-3568 -4 Cornerstone Christian 42, Desert Chapel 14
at Cincinnati 3 (42 2)
1
Baltimore Katherine Kirk .......................34-3468 -4 INTERSECTIONAL
Minnesota -123 at Kansas City +113 Milken 46, East Valley 8
Pittsburgh 9 (46 2)
1
at Cleveland Ayako Uehara .......................33-3568 -4
Houston -168 at Oakland +158 Dani Holmqvist .....................34-3468 -4
Interleague at Green Bay 3 (5012) Seattle Sarah Kemp .........................34-3468 -4
Favorite Underdog Carolina 5 2 (47 2) at S. Francisco
1 1 Haeji Kang ...........................33-3568 -4
Wichanee Meechai ................34-3569 -3
at Dallas 4 (47 2) N.Y. Giants PRO SOCCER
1
at Chi. W. Sox -110 San Francisco +100 Beth Allen ............................33-3669 -3
Monday Katherine Perry .....................35-3469 -3 MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
College Football Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog Mi Hyang Lee........................32-3769 -3 WEST W L T Pts GF GA
Today at Denver 312 (43) CHARGERS Beatriz Recari .......................35-3469 -3
Paula Creamer.......................36-3369 -3 Seattle .........11 7 9 42 41 34
Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog at Minnesota 3 (48) New Orleans Portland .......11 9 8 41 48 45
Jennifer Song........................35-3469 -3
at Purdue 312 (57) Ohio Updates at Pregame.com Minjee Lee ...........................37-3269 -3 Sporting K.C. .10 6 10 40 31 20
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Mariah Stackhouse................35-3469 -3 Vancouver .....11 9 5 38 37 35
at Central Fla. 312 (6912) Memphis FC Dallas........9 7 10 37 39 35
Cheyenne Woods...................34-3569 -3
Saturday Andy Lyons Getty Images Holly Clyburn ........................34-3670 -2 San Jose.......10 11 6 36 31 44
Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog PRO FOOTBALL Jackie Stoelting.....................33-3770 -2 R. Salt Lake ..10 13 5 35 40 48
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Pavarisa Yoktuan ...................35-3570 -2 GALAXY ..........7 14 5 26 35 47
at UCLA 2312 (6312) Hawaii
at USC 512 (55) Stanford
Thursdays Result
Kansas City 42, New England 27 LEADING L ADY Brittany Lang ........................36-3470 -2
Tiffany Joh............................36-3470 -2
Minn. United ...7 14 4
Colorado ........6 16 4
25 32
22 24
52
41
Sundays Schedule Alena Sharp .........................36-3470 -2 EAST W L T Pts GF GA
at Kansas 5 (58) C. Michigan
Indianapolis at RAMS, 1 p.m. Lexi Thompson, on her way to a nine-under 63, waves to the crowd Ally McDonald ......................35-3570 -2
at Oregon 13 (6912) Nebraska Toronto FC.....16 3 8 56 55 26
at Wisconsin 31 2 (59)
1
Fla. Atlantic
Oakland at Tennessee, 10 a.m.
Arizona at Detroit, 10
after making a birdie on the ninth hole during the first round of Mel Reid ..............................35-3570 -2
Aditi Ashok...........................35-3570 -2 N.Y. City FC ...15 7 5 50 49 35
Chicago ........13 9 5 44 48 36
at Army 16 2 (54 2)
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Buffalo Atlanta at Chicago, 10 the LGPA Tours inaugural Indy Women in Tech Championship. Laura Gonzalez Escallon .........35-3570 -2
Megan Khang .......................36-3470 -2 Columbus .....13 12 3 42 42 42
at Michigan St. 8 (4812) W. Michigan Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 10 New York.......12 10 4 40 40 35
Jacksonville at Houston, 10 Nicole Broch Larsen...............39-3170 -2
at Rutgers 5 (52 2)
1
E. Michigan Caroline Masson ...................33-3770 -2 Atl. United FC 10 8 6 36 44 32
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 10 Montreal.......10 10 6 36 42 42
Old Dominion 312 (61) at Mass. Lizette Salas.........................37-3370 -2
Baltimore at Cincinnati, 10 Sei Young Kim.......................33-3770 -2 New England ...9 12 5 32 43 41
Northwestern 3 (55) at Duke Philadelphia at Washington, 10 TRANSACTIONS COLLEGE CYCLING Gaby Lopez ..........................34-3670 -2 Philadelphia....8 12 7 31 36 38
at W. Virginia 24 2 (66)
1
E. Carolina Seattle at Green Bay, 1:15 Orlando City ....8 12 7 31 27 43
Carolina at San Francisco, 1:15 BASEBALL FOOTBALL VUELTA A ESPANA Caroline Hedwall ...................36-3470 -2
Hannah Burke.......................35-3570 -2 D.C. United .....8 15 4 28 22 44
at Michigan 34 (49 2)
1
Cincinnati BaltimoreCalled up pitcher Mike Wright At Camaleno, Spain
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Louisville 10 (6112) at N. Carolina Tampa Bay at Miami, ppd., hurricane from Norfolk (IL). Thursdays Results 18th Stage PGA EUROPEAN TOUR
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at Boston Coll. PK (46) Wake Forest New Orleans at Minnesota, 4:10 p.m. ColoradoActivated catcher Ryan Hanigan
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SOUTHWEST hours, 9 minutes, 39 seconds. 2. Alexey Lut-
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Todays Schedule
Raimel Tapia from Albuquerque (PCL). Houston Baptist 24, Texas Southern 17 hind. 3. Giovanni Visconti, Italy, Bahrain-Merida, Miguel Angel Jimenez .............32-3264 -6 BASEBALL
at UTEP 1 2 (56 2)
1 1
Rice WashingtonPurchased the contract of ROCKIES :46. 4. Alexis Gougeard, France, AG2R La Mondi- Tyrrell Hatton ........................34-3064 -6 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
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outfielder Victor Robles from Harrisburg (EL); Utah St. 51, Idaho St. 13 ale, 1:02. 5. Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil, Spain, Mo- Playoffs
at Colorado 3512 (5712) Texas St. called up outfielders Rafael Bautista and Andrew vistar Team, 1:06. 6. Alessandro De Marchi, Italy, Ryan Fox..............................32-3365 -5 Best of Five
at Ball St. 14 (54 2)
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$50.4-MILLION U.S. OPEN Memphis (1-0) at Central Florida (1-0), 3:30 lon, Spain, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, same time. Darren Fichardt.....................32-3365 -5 El Paso 3, Reno 1
Indiana 3 (56) at Virginia FOOTBALL p.m.
At New York CincinnatiSigned linebacker Vontaze 9. Antwan Tolhoek, Netherlands, Team LottoNL- Duncan Stewart ....................33-3265 -5 Thursdays Results
at Penn St. 21 (66) Pittsburgh Surface: Hard-Outdoor Delaware St. (0-1) vs. Hampton (0-1) 4 p.m. Jumbo, 1:38. 10. Anthony Roux, France, FDJ, Todd Sinnott .........................34-3165 -5
Burfict to a three-year extension. Oklahoma St. (1-0) at South Alabama (0-1), 5 Adilson Da Silva....................33-3366 -4 Colorado Springs 5, Memphis 0
at Alabama 44 (53 2)
1
Fresno St. WOMENS SINGLES (semfinals)Sloane ClevelandSigned defensive end Tyrone 1:42. El Paso 7, Reno 2
Stephens d. Venus Williams (9), 6-1, 0-6, 7-5; p.m. Others included: 34. Tejay Van Garderen, Daniel Im.............................31-3566 -4
at Navy 13 (47 2)
1
Tulane Holmes; waived offensive lineman Zach Sterup, Fabrizio Zanotti .....................35-3166 -4 Todays Schedule
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W. Kentucky 7 (51) at Illinois Carlos Pigem ........................34-3266 -4 Memphis at Colorado Springs, 5 p.m.
6-1, 6-2. Josh Woodrum. Ohio (1-0) at Purdue (0-1), 5 p.m. Trek-Segafredo, 12:52. 66. Joe Dombrowski,
at Baylor 17 (59) UTSA a-Sean Crocker .....................32-3466 -4 Reno at El Paso, 6 p.m.
MENS DOUBLES (semifinals)Horia Tecau, Kansas CityReleased running back C.J. U.S., Cannondale Drapac, 19:41. 93. Chad Damien Perrier......................35-3267 -3
at Texas 26 (6312) San Jose St Romania-Jean-Julien Rojer (12), Netherlands, d. Haga, U.S., Sunweb, 24:47. CALIFORNIA LEAGUE
Spiller and offensive lineman Jordan Devey. Paul Peterson .......................35-3267 -3
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TCU 3 (59 2)
1
at Arkansas New EnglandPut wide receiver Malcolm David Lipsky .........................34-3367 -3 Best of Five
at Tulsa 14 (5712) La. Lafayette
ia, 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5; Feliciano Lopez, Spain-
Marc Lopez (11), Spain, d. Bob Bryan and Mike
Mitchell on injured reserve; signed offensive line- PRO Froome, Britain, Sky, 72:03:50. 2. Vincenzo Ni-
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linebackers Ron Thompson Jr. and Lynden Trail
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at Missouri 3 (71) South Carolina
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Georgia Andrea Hlavackova (5), Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), Phoenix at Connecticut, noon Wout Poels, Netherlands, Sky, 6:47. 10. Steven Matthew Fitzpatrick................35-3267 -3 Lancaster at Rancho Cucamonga, 7 p.m.
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Trifecta (5-2-6) paid $72.30. 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (4-7) paid $179.60, $1 Exacta (7-6) paid $198.80, $1 8 Time: 22.03, 44.86, 57.25, 1.10.01. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Neil D. Drysdale. Owner:
so confident their treatment performance to 45-minutes, an 7002 SECOND RACE. 512 furlongs. Waiver claiming. Three-year-olds Superfecta (7-6-4-2) paid $4,406.90, $1 Trifecta (7-6-4) paid $456.50, $1 Pick Three Stepaside Farm.
will immediately help men hour, 90-minutes or longer, and up. Claiming prices $16,000-$14,000. Purse $17,000. (5-4-7) paid $310.90. 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (6-7) paid $110.00, $1 Exacta (7-5) paid $12.30, $1
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Livingston, and patients see 6 Cherokee Dynasty Hernandez 3.40 2.80
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medication dose. 8 Also Ran: Mizter Kool Cat, My Farmer, Aeon. 6 Social Taboo Pedroza 3.60 2.60 9 Dark Vader Roman 7.80 4.60
climax, the patient stays erect 8 Time: 21.68, 45.01, 57.39, 1.04.25. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Mark Glatt. Owner: Moran, 7 Just Be Held Roman 2.60 1 Draft Pick Gutierrez 4.40
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premature ejaculation have 8 Scratched: none. 8 Time: 22.71, 46.12, 58.11, 1.10.78. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Molly J. Pearson. Owner: 8 Time: 24.21, 48.50, 1.12.20, 1.25.69, 1.38.96. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Eoin G. Harty.
This allows them to adequately 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (5-5) paid $15.80, $1Exacta (5-6) paid $6.10, $1Superfecta Anderson, Regan and Kunz, Yvonne. Owner: Godolphin Stable.
long been a (5-6-2-3) paid $168.20, $1 Trifecta (5-6-2) paid $35.90. 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (7-5) paid $677.20, $1 Exacta (5-6) paid $20.90, $1 8 Scratched: Dare To Enter, Primo Touch, Taranis.
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problem for 7003 THIRD RACE. 512 furlongs. Claiming. Three-year-olds and up. Superfecta (5-6-7-4) paid $258.10, $1 Trifecta (5-6-7) paid $65.40, $1 Pick Three (4-7-5) 8 Exotics: $2 Daily Double (7-8) paid $172.80, $1 Exacta (8-9) paid $79.30, $1

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millions of partner. No other Claiming prices $12,500-$10,500. Purse $16,000. paid $2,323.20, 50-Cent Pick Four (5-4-7-5) 4 correct paid $1,298.95, 50-Cent Pick Five Superfecta (8-9-1-3) paid $1,346.90, $1 Super High Five (8-9-1-3-6) , Super High Five
medication P# Horse Jockey Win Place Show (5-5-4-7-5) 5 correct paid $4,128.30. Carryover $10,172, $1 Trifecta (8-9-1) paid $416.50, $1 Pick Three (6-7-8) paid $713.10,
men, in spite of 4 Getoffmyback Roman 7.20 2.80 2.20 7006 SIXTH RACE. 1 mile. Claiming. Three-year-olds and up. Claiming 50-Cent Pick Four (5-6-7-8) 4 correct paid $3,048.45, $2 Pick Six (4-7-5-6-7-8) 4 out of
the popularity can do this. We 5 Alley Boss Pedroza 2.20 2.10 prices $8,000-$7,000. Purse $14,000. 6 paid $768.80, Pick Six Carryover $10,765.

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of Viagra, 8 Also Ran: Lions Luck, Chief Tiger, Wheres Bubba. 6 Air Pocket Maldonado 10.80 5.60 2.80
guarantee: On-track attendance-844. Mutuel handle-$219,558
Cialis and 8 Time: 21.96, 45.29, 57.14, 1.03.48. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Peter Miller. Owner: Gary 8 Our Nation Gonzalez 4.00 2.80 Inter-track attendance-2,908. Mutuel handle-$749,586
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respond to the Total attendance-3,752. Mutuel handle-$3,328,395
men arent fecta (4-5-1-6) paid $41.50, $1 Trifecta (4-5-1) paid $16.90, $1 Pick Three (5-5-4) paid 8 Time: 23.84, 48.04, 1.13.09, 1.25.85, 1.39.28. Clear & Fast. Trainer: Rafael DeLeon.
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L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
Stephens
gets past
Williams
[Elliott, from D1]
all-American night with a 6-1,
6-2 rout of CoCo Vandeweghe,
but neither found it easy to be
labeled the Next Great
American Tennis Hope be-
fore they were ready to carry
that burden. Theyre ready
now. Im just super proud
and honored to be a part of
what these four girls were,
what we did tonight,
Stephens said.
Keys, who acknowledged
she didnt expect to win here
and was just going match by
match, savored the night
that much more because she
and Stephens have become
friends over the years. I cant
think of a better person to
have this first experience
with, Keys said.
Stephens, 24, has always
been a good defender but was
forced to refine other el-
ements of her game. She had
to become more nimble with
her footwork which is now
one of her strengths add
nuances that give depth and
extra dimensions to her
power-dependent game, and
become more positive when
things arent going so well, as
in Williams second-set re-
vival Thursday. In the third
set, though, Stephens discov-
ered she had another asset to
tap after Williams took a 5-4
lead and was two points away
from victory at 30-all.
That Im a real fighter,
that I have a lot of grit. Sur-
prising, said Stephens, who
hit a spectacular backhand
passing shot to get back into
that 10th game and trigger a
match-closing roll.
I dont give up. Im not
just going to give it to some-
one. Im not just going to let
them take it from me. Im
going to make sure I give
everything that I have, and I
leave everything on the court
at all times, no matter what.
It was a difficult loss for
Williams, whom Keys and
Stephens have said they
MADISON KEYS celebrates her 6-1, 6-2 victory over CoCo Vandeweghe. These
are the moments growing up that you dream about, she said afterward.
idolize. Williams, told of their
respect for her, was unmoved,
probably because her loss
was so fresh. To be honest,
Im definitely here to win my
matches, not for consola-
tions, said Williams, who was
serenaded by a standing
ovation from Stephens and
the appreciative fans as she
exited the court.
For the last few years
Stephens has been, in some
ways, a victim of her own
success. She was 19 when she
defeated Serena Williams to
reach the Australian Open
semifinals in 2013, a triumph
that immediately raised
Stephens profile and the
expectations for her future.
She made the quarterfinals at
Wimbledon that year but
didnt get past the fourth
round of another Slam until
she got past three seeded
players here and then de-
feated the ninth-seeded
Williams.
I was a baby then,
Stephens said of that 2013
semifinal. I didnt know as
much as I know now. I think a
lot of life has happened. I have
been through a lot.
Keys has had her share of
tribulations, too, most re-
cently two wrist surgeries
that also made her a specta-
tor during this years Austral-
ian Open. Seeded No. 15 here,
Keys was sharp from the start
against No. 20 seed Van-
deweghe and never faced a
break point. Keys hit 25 win-
ners and made only nine
unforced errors.
I thought at some point
Adam Hunger Associated Press
she might start running a
little bit colder than what she
was doing, said Vandeweghe,
who teared up several times
during her post-match news
conference. I was fighting as
hard as I could for as long as I
could but she stayed hot the
whole time.
Keys took a medical time-
out after she tweaked some-
thing in her thigh just to be
sure it would not become a
bother, but that was the only
blip on her otherwise joyous
night. It feels absolutely
amazing, she said. These
are the moments growing up
that you dream about.
For Keys or for Stephens,
a dream will come true on
Saturday.
helene.elliott@latimes.com
F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017 D9
U.S. OPEN NOTES
Bryan brothers
lose in semifinals
By Helene Elliott
NEW YORK Twins Bob
and Mike Bryan, who grew
up in Camarillo, wont add a
fifth U.S. Open mens doubles
title or 17th Grand Slam title
to their collection.
The No. 11-seeded (and un-
related) team of Feliciano
Lopez and Marc Lopez of
Spain defeated the fifth-
seeded Bryan brothers
Thursday in the semifinals
6-3, 3-6, 6-4. The Bryans Daniel Murphy EPA
havent won a Grand Slam SEMIFINALIST Juan
since the 2014 U.S. Open, their Martin del Potro won
longest drought since they sportsmanship award.
won their first major at the
French Open in 2003.
The duo of Jean-Julien
Rojer of the Netherlands and Todays
Horia Tecau of Romania,
seeded 12th, upset the No. 1-
semifinals
seeded team of Henri Konti-
nen of Finland and John MEN
Peers of Australia 6-1, 6-7(5), 8 No. 28 Kevin Anderson vs.
7-5 to advance to the mens No. 12 Pablo Carreno Busta
doubles final. 8 No. 1 Rafael Nadal vs.
No. 24 Juan Martin del Potro
Honors
Juan Martin del Potro,
who upset Roger Federer on his only Grand Slam title here,
Wednesday to advance to the in 2009.
mens semifinals, and Petra The first semifinal will pit
Kvitova, who reached the No. 12 Pablo Carreno Busta
quarterfinals to continue a re- of Spain against No. 28 Kevin
markable comeback from Anderson of South Africa.
injuries she suffered in a knife Anderson, who stands 6-
attack last December, were foot-8, has a 2-0 lead in their
named winners of the U.S. head-to-head matchups. Car-
Open Sportsmanship reno Busta didnt lose a set in
awards. The U.S. Tennis Assn. his first five matches here and
annually gives the awards to his service has been broken
the professional tennis play- only three times in 87 service
ers who best demonstrate ex- games.
cellence in sportsmanship
throughout the U.S. Open Se- Wheelchairs
ries and the U.S. Open. Wheelchair tennis was
Del Potro, the No. 24 seed, contested at Arthur Ashe Sta-
will face No. 1 Rafael Nadal in dium for the first time, with
the second semifinal Friday. two doubles matches. Wheel-
Nadal holds an 8-5 lead in chair competition will contin-
their head-to-head meetings, ue through Sunday in mens,
but Del Potro has a 5-4 edge on womens and quad divisions.
hard courts. Nadal won two of
his 15 Grand Slam titles here, helene.elliott@latimes.com
in 2010 and 2013. Del Potro won Twitter: @helenenothelen

Coliseum, Rose Bowl and Inglewood NFL stadium all want in

They are among
dozens of venues
hoping to stage World
Cup games in 2026.
By Kevin Baxter
MIAMI Three South-
land stadiums have submit-
ted paperwork to stage World
Cup games in 2026 should the
united bid of the U.S., Mexico
and Canada to host the tour-
nament win approval from
FIFA.
The Coliseum, the new
NFL stadium being built at
Hollywood Park and the
Rose Bowl, site of the 1994
World Cup final, are among
the venues that have applied
to the United Bid Committee,
which this month will pare
the candidates to a shortlist
of prospective host cities.
Forty other cities in 25
U.S. states and the District of
Columbia, three Mexican
states and five Canadian
provinces also have ex-
pressed interest in staging
World Cup games.
Twenty to 25 cities will be
included in the final bid sub-
mitted to FIFA.
Other U.S. stadiums that
have submitted bids include:
the new Mercedes-Benz Sta-
dium in Atlanta; AT&T Sta-
dium in Arlington, Texas; Le-
gion Field in Birmingham,
Ala.; Soldier Field in Chicago;
the Raiders proposed sta-
dium in Las Vegas; Levis Sta-
dium in Santa Clara; and Uni-
versity of Phoenix Stadium in
Glendale, Ariz.
Six Canadian stadiums
and three in Mexico includ-
ing Mexico Citys Estadio
Azteca, the first stadium to
host two World Cup finals
also are being considered.
biggest single-event sporting match and the final.
WEEKEND SOCCER ON TV competition, the FIFA World The submitted bids pro-
Cup, and together they will vide information about each
After a brief pause for the FIFA international break, Europes top leagues return play a key role in the devel- citys experience hosting ma-
to action this weekend with a number of interesting early season matchups. opment of the sport in North jor sporting and cultural
Here are a few worth watching Saturday in place of college football: America. events, potential venues,
Were thrilled with the transportation infrastruc-
English Premier League: Both Manchester teams will be in action with
submissions that we have re- ture, available accommoda-
unbeaten Manchester City hosting unbeaten Liverpool in an early morning
ceived, especially each citys tions, environmental-protec-
match (NBCSN, NBC Universo, 4:30 a.m. PT) that figures to be a high-scoring
commitment to innovation tion initiatives and more.
affair. Manchester United perfect three games into the season, with a league-
and sustainability, and we Cities also must propose
high 10 goals scored and none allowed travels to face Stoke City, which is
look forward to bringing the international-level training
perfect at home (NBC, NBC Universo, 9:30 a.m. PT).
best group of candidate host sites and locations for team
Bundesliga: Christian Pulisics Dortmund squad, unbeaten and unscored- cities together for our official base camps as well as hotels
upon two games into its season, will go on the road to meet winless Freiburg united bid. for teams, staff and VIPs.
(FS1, 6:30 a.m. PT). The 41 cities represent The three-country united
La Liga: Barcelona, which has benefited from two goals by Lionel Messi in diverse geographical regions bid will be competing against
outscoring opponents 4-0 through two games, puts it unbeaten record on the across the three countries a bid from Morocco to stage
line at home against winless Espanyol (beIN Sports, 11:30 a.m. PT). and a wide array of facilities, the 2026 World Cup. FIFA is
Kevin Baxter including stadiums for soccer expected to choose between
and football as well as domed the two proposals at its con-
and retractable-roof facili- gress next June.
Among the options are define the united bid, United ties. The 2026 World Cup will
Olympic Stadium in Montre- Bid Committee executive di- All stadiums are required be the events largest, with 48
al, Vancouvers BC Place and rector John Kristick said in a to have at least 40,000 seats teams participating.
Liga MX facilities in Guada- statement. Each will offer for group-stage games and a
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THE HUNGRY clown Pennywise, played by Bill Skarsgard, terrorizes a small town in the first half of a two-film enterprise based on Stephen Kings horror classic.
LIKE A BAD PENNY
REVIEW
The evil clown Pennywise
returns in a new It that
seems more like Goonies
By Jen Yamato
The 1950s small-town
America of Stephen Kings
youth provides a deceptively
wholesome backdrop for the
authors nightmarish 1986
novel It, about adolescent
misfits in Derry, Maine, who
band together to fight an
evil, shape-shifting clown.
But transplant the timeline
to summer 1989 the set-
ting of Warner Bros. slick
new adaptation (the first for
the big screen) and you
get different nostalgic
touchstones.
The dark sagas young
heroes now bike past movie
theater marquees advertis-
ing Tim Burtons Batman
and Lethal Weapon 2 as
they flee the bullies, mon-
sters, and adults who terror-
ize them along the dusty
backroads of a sunbaked
town suffocating under an
invisible haze of sickness.
Unfortunately for them,
Ray Romano gets serious
Does everybody love
the Raymond stars
darker side? The
comedian hopes so.
By Yvonne Villarreal
Ray Romano was headed
to New York. He had hair
and makeup tests for a role
as a mob lawyer in the up-
coming Martin Scorsese
film The Irishman. And,
yeah, the thought of being in
a movie that boasts legend-
ary Oscar-winning actors Al
Pacino, Robert De Niro and
Joe Pesci had him more than
a little nervous. Terrified, ac-
tually.
Im [] scared, is how
he phrased it in a text earlier
in the day to Bobby Can-
navale, his former Vinyl co-
star who also has a part in
the picture. (The use of ellip-
ses is our own, standing in
for a colorful word that a
[See Romano, E13]
F R I D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 7 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R
these kids dont have much
time to fritter away watching
popcorn fantasies in which
outsize superheroes save
the day.
In It, the kids have to
fend for themselves, risking
their limbs, lives and, most
tragically, the innocence of
youth to survive.
Mama maestro Andy
Muschietti directs this visu-
ally splendid but themati-
cally toned-down inter-
pretation with finesse, craft-
ing a world rich in detail
where menace lurks in every
shadow.
Working off a densely
plotted script credited to
Chase Palmer, Gary
Dauberman and previously
attached helmer Cary Fuku-
naga, Muschietti packs in a
dazzling array of fun house
thrills choreographed
within lushly designed sets,
blending a painterly hand
with haunting VFX to bring
the films supernatural
[See It, E10]
RAY ROMANO plays a Hollywood producer in Epixs Get Shorty. Hes also
playing a mob lawyer in Martin Scorseses upcoming picture The Irishman.
AT T H E M OV I E S
THE LOSERS CLUB is the towns only hope.
MORE REVIEWS
KENNETH TURAN
Dolores PAGE E4
The legendary activist Dolores Huerta is profiled.
ADDITIONAL REVIEWS
Napping Princess PAGE E5
A girl goes on a quest in the animated Japanese film.
Home Again PAGE E6
Escapist fantasy with Reese Witherspoon is well done.
The Wound PAGE E7
A Xhosa manhood rite raises issues for participants.
Fallen and other films.
Photographs by Brooke Palmer Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema
From a below-the-radar
duo comes a horror tale
with great expectations
By Steven Zeitchik
TORONTO Film di-
rector Andy Muschietti
stood on a soundstage and
swiveled his head around
the subterranean world hed
created.
The boyish-faced Argen-
tine was attempting to bring
It, the epically scaled
Stephen King novel, to cin-
ematic life.
Behind Muschietti, a
winding set of constructed
sewer tunnels crisscrossed
like an Escher painting. A
half-dozen child actors re-
hearsed looks of gasping
horror. High above loomed a
tower of creepdom a
multi-story mound studded
with protruding shopping
carts, bicycles and used
clothing to form the worlds
most macabre Christmas
tree.
I think we may need to
do this a little bigger,
Muschietti said.
PAGES E6-9 He was referring, pre-
sumably, to the emotional
Hammer is intent
on hitting hard
The hip-hop artist
keeps swaggering as he
pushes determinedly
into social issues.
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC
Turns out you can touch
this.
As he strode through the
Hollywood & Highland com-
plex on Wednesday after-
noon, MC Hammer was ap-
proached by a group of
young men who looked sur-
prised to have crossed paths
with the flamboyant rapper
famous for his 1990 smash U
Cant Touch This.
Could they shake Ham-
mers hand, maybe get a
quick selfie? Sure, no prob-
Kirk McKoy Los Angeles Times lem Hammer had time for
that. And how about these
other folks? Just one more
E
feel of the scene. The direc-
tor didnt need to supersize
much else about the project,
which centers on the self-
anointed Losers Club of
early adolescents terrorized
by demonic clown Penny-
wise. Everything about It
is big some in ways not de-
sired or intended.
The 1986 novel not only
clocks in at more than 1,100
pages but holds a special
spot in the hearts of millions
of teens, proving long ahead
of Harry Potter and The
Hunger Games that kids
will devour literature if given
the right genre fable. Even
before Muschietti and his
sister/producing partner
Barbara came aboard, It
had become the stuff of de-
velopment-hell legend.
True Detective auteur
Cary Fukunaga spent six
years working on the project
before leaving in a creative
clash with the studio.
Once the Muschiettis got
to set last summer, things
mushroomed further. The
[See Muschiettis, E10]
picture? OK, OK. Fist
bumps all around.
In a walk of just a few hun-
dred feet from the Loews
Hollywood Hotel to the stu-
dios of Revolt TV, where he
was due for an appearance
to talk up a concert hes
playing Friday night at Sta-
ples Center MC Hammer
pressed flesh half a dozen
times, each with the willing
patience of a man eager to
hang on to his fading celebri-
[See MC Hammer, E12]
Whats in L.A.s
99-seat theaters
Rhinoceros and
WET are among the
compelling shows in
smaller venues. E3
TV grid .................... E13
Horoscope .............. E14
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Youthana Yuos
ALEX ALPHARAOH tells his life story in WET.

THE 99-SEAT BEAT

Cutting-edge
drama and
deep thoughts Vitor Martins
KENDRAH McKAY and Keith Stevenson in the classic farce Rhinoceros at Pacific Resident Theatre.
By Philip Brandes

The Times theater team is back with its new weekly

Rhinoceros has
shortlist of offerings at L.A.s 99-seat theaters and other a timely warning
smaller venues. Some of these shows weve seen; others
might have caught our attention because of the timely What: Rhinoceros at
themes or track record of the playwright, director or cast. Pacific Resident
These picks appear every Friday, a bookend to our compre- The essentials: Consid-
ered one of the foundational
hensive theater listings posted every Monday at
works of the existential
latimes.com/arts. This week on the 99-Seat Beat: theater of the absurd, Eu-
gene Ionescos classic farce
smaller professional theater
at its best.
Pacific Resident Theatre,
703 Venice Blvd., Venice. 8
p.m. Thursdays- Saturdays,
3 p.m. Sundays. Ends Oct.
15. $25-$34. (310) 822-8392 or
pacificresidenttheatre.
com/rhinoceros.
with 60s-style resistance
making a comeback, his
importance is all the more
deserving of recognition. In
a recent Times interview,
director Joe Mantegna
(Criminal Minds) called
Bruce one of the rare per-
formers who pushed the
envelope for not just show
business, but for society. We
should never hesitate to
Nick Paynes eloquent,
insightful puzzle box of a
drama. Four actors play 21
roles in three interlocking
stories centered on the way
memory and internal states
of mind shape and challenge
our elusive sense of identity.
Why this?: At 33, Payne
is already among the top
tier of widely produced
contemporary playwrights.

His own DACA alternative to the rhetoric

drama plays out
What: WET: A DACA-
mented Journey at EST/LA
The essentials: This
personal history is written
and performed by L.A.-
based actor, teacher and
social worker Alex Al-
pharaoh, who has lived in
the U.S. since he was 3
months old. It chronicles a
Dreamers lifelong efforts production at the Atwater
to navigate the absurdities
and Catch-22s of our broken
immigration system.
Why this?: Here is a
compelling story whose
next chapter is being writ-
ten in todays headlines. The
show offers a humanizing
surrounding the Deferred
Action for Childhood Ar-
rivals program and looks at
the precarious status of
thousands of young people
for whom the United States
is the only home theyve
known. Alpharaohs offers a
sympathetic presence in the
middle of a controversial
issue.
An Ensemble Studio Thea-
tre/LA and True Story
parable offers a warning
Village Theatre Complex,
3269 Casitas Ave., Los Ange-
les. 8 p.m. Friday and Sat-
urday, 2 p.m. Sunday (ends
Sunday). $19.95 online or $26
at the door. (818) 839-1197,
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questions the nature and
responsibilities of an indi-
vidual when civilized, up-
standing citizens begin
spontaneously transform-
ing into rampaging beasts.
The play was written as an
allegorical critique of the
mid-20th century rise of
totalitarian regimes Nazi,
fascist, communist, nation-
alist but applies to any
doctrine invoked as a pre-
text for tyranny.
Why this?: Ionescos
satirical monologues fear-
about the ease with which
entire populations can
willingly surrender their
human values to the baser
impulses of herd mentality.
Its an inventively staged
and superbly acted produc-
tion, a stellar example of
Recognizing
Lenny Bruce
What: I Am Not a Come-
dian Im Lenny Bruce at Fridays and Saturdays, 5
Theatre 68
The essentials: Actor
Ronnie Marmos long-run-
ning solo performance
traces the troubled life and
career of Lenny Bruce,
whose jazz-inspired,
stream-of-consciousness
complexity
lessly defied censorship
standards and helped to
pave the way for the protest
sensibilities of the 1960s.
Why this?: Political
satirists from George Carlin
to Samantha Bee owe a
huge debt to Bruce, and
continue to push that envel-
ope.
A Theatre 68 production at
5112 Lankershim Blvd.,
North Hollywood. 8 p.m.
of being human. Critically
p.m. Sundays; ends Oct. 29.
$35. (323) 960-5068 or
www.theatre68.com.
Depth and
Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thurs-
What: Incognito at
Rubicon Theatre
The essentials: The
mystery of human con-
sciousness fuels the West
Coast premiere of fast-
rising British playwright
The recent Geffen Play-
house production of his
Constellations showcased
Paynes ability to apply
scientific and philosophical
concepts to the challenges
acclaimed in its Broadway
debut last year, Incognito
promises similar depth and
complexity.
A Rubicon Theatre produc-
tion at 1006 E. Main St.,
Ventura. 2 and 7 p.m.
days and Fridays, 2 and 8
p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sun-
days, from Sept. 16 to Oct. 1.
$50-$55 ($125 opening night
gala). (805) 667-2900 or
www.rubicontheatre.org.
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DOLORES HUERTA speaks at a 1975 press conference in a clip from Peter Bratts documentary Dolores. Huerta is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers.

REVIEW

Why she wont shut up

A documentary profiles the longtime activist Dolores Huerta and her struggles
KENNETH TURAN
FILM CRITIC
Dolores is a documen-
tary that celebrates a hero,
but its no hagiography. Its
subject wouldnt stand for
that.
That would be Dolores
Huerta, a legendary activist
who at age 87 defines inde-
fatigable, a woman whose
experience shows what a life
of total commitment means
as well as the price it de-
mands.
Huerta has been jailed,
seriously beaten, mocked by
commentator Glenn Beck
and given the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by Presi-
dent Obama. Yet she doesnt
have the name recognition
of her close collaborator,
Cesar Chavez, something di-
rector Peter Bratt is deter-
mined to change with this
vivid, informative and heart-
ening documentary.
Huerta was the co-found-
er, along with Chavez, of the
United Farm Workers union.
Shes also the person who
came up with that organiza-
tions celebrated slogan, Si,
se puede yes, we can
someone whose tireless ac-
tivism has extended to femi-
nism, the environment and
the political process.
Although numerous on-
camera voices are compli-
mentary, including Gloria
Steinem, Angela Davis and
playwright Luis Valdez, the
films tone is set not by them
but by Huerta herself. Shes
a clear-eyed and tough-
minded truth-teller who has
no hesitation about recall-
ing her life exactly the way it
was.
In addition to being an
iconic political organizer,
Huerta is also the mother of
11, and what makes Dolo-
res unusual is how much
screen time it gives to her
children as they talk with
heartfelt and moving candor
about the difficulties of hav-
ing a parent who, as one of
them says, really didnt be-
long to us.
Outraged at injustice
even as a teenager, Huerta
met Fred Ross, a legendary
community organizer, and
by age 25 was the political di-
rector of his Community
Service Organization.
Ross introduced her to
Cesar Chavez, and though
he was initially wary about
her, they jointly formed what
became the United Farm
Workers because unless
you and I do it, it will never
happen.
Working in backbreaking
conditions for wages as low
as 90 cents an hour, the Cen-
tral Valleys farmworkers
certainly needed a union,
but organizing them was a
challenge because they were
poor, often did not speak
English and were not citi-
zens.
Dolores
Not rated
Running time: 1 hour, 37
minutes
Playing: Landmark's
Nuart, West Los Angeles
Huerta, however, did not
hesitate. It was such a call-
ing, I felt it so strongly, she
says, adding with potent
simplicity, this is the reason
I live.
The farmworkers struck
in 1965, and Huertas exam-
ple, her organizational skill
and her sheer force of belief
were key factors in the strug-
gle and had the additional
benefit of encouraging wom-
en to join the union.
One of the farmworkers
first high-profile allies was
then-presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy. Huerta
was one of the people with
him the night he was assas-
sinated.
Dolores has moving
footage of that event and
also underlines Huertas key
role as a union strategist in
planning and executing a
key farmworker march on
Sacramento and a nation-
wide boycott that saw an es-
timated 17 million people
stop eating grapes.
As impressive as all this
is, Dolores never lets us
forget the human cost that
had to be paid, letting Huer-
tas children and the woman
herself comment frequently
on the impact her actions
had on her family.
She was off and run-
ning thats one daugh-
ters rueful comment about
one of her mothers depar-
tures. A son reveals that it
took her 10 months to realize
hed dropped out of high
school. The movement be-
came her most important
child, another daughter
says, adding, there are
scars there because of that.
Dolores also deals with
even darker periods in Huer-
tas life, providing video of a
life-threatening beating by
the San Francisco police.
Three of her ribs were bro-
ken, and it took her months
to recover.
Painful in a different way
was the aftermath of
Chavezs death, when she
was unaccountably passed
over for the leadership of the
union she helped to found.
The unexpected thing
about Dolores is that if its
political story makes it im-
portant, its human story
makes it involving.
You cant make change,
Huerta says, unless youre
willing to give something
up, and this fine documen-
tary shows the truth of that
from both sides of the coin.
kenneth.turan
@latimes.com

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signature achievements. But this precise and luxuriant rendition of Daphne du Mauriers
masterful gothic romance is still entertainment of a high order, with a riveting psychological Columbus
Superb performances by
Lois Smith, Jon Hamm,
is delayed
triangle embodied by Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier and the incomparable Judith Ander- John Cho and Haley Lu Geena Davis and Tim Rob- The drama 9/11, starring
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IN NAPPING PRINCESS, a girl and her friend travel through time and space to save her widowed father.
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ITS ALL soft lights and perfect styling in Hallie Meyers-Shyers directorial debut about how Alice (Reese Witherspoon, center, at head of table ) got her groove back.

HOME AGAIN

That reliable Meyers touch

This escapist fantasy looks like one of Nancys, but its daughter Hallies work
Nancy serving as a producer
By Katie Walsh on this mother-daughter co-
production of a specific cin-
The name Meyers has ematic product. Featuring
come to signify a specific beloved actresses on the
type of film in Hollywood other side of 40 enshrined in
the shiny, gentle, comforting sun-dappled kitchens as
and aspirational romantic they fret over romantic
family comedies that writer- foibles, a Meyers movie is the
director Nancy Meyers has kind of domestic escapism
perfected: Somethings that feels like being wrapped
Gotta Give, The Holiday, in a warm hug. And though
Its Complicated. Her Home Again clearly shares
daughter, Hallie Meyers- DNA with her mothers
Shyer, keeps that legacy work, the sharp screenplay,
alive with her directorial de- written by Meyers-Shyer, is
but, Home Again. modern and sly, universally
Call it nepotism, call it a relatable and poignant at
legacy or simply call it the times too.
family business. It inspires a Reese Witherspoon stars
sense of trustworthiness, as Alice, the daughter of the
quality and consistency. late John Kinney, a revered
The Meyers aesthetic is (fictional) 1970s film direc-
strong in this film, with tor, and his actress wife, Lil-
lian (Candice Bergen, who
gets some of the best lines in
the film). Alice is recently
separated from her hus-
band, Austen (Michael
Sheen), and returned home
to her dads palatial pad in
L.A. with her two daughters,
trying to get steady on her
feet.
Before she knows it, her
world is rocked again with
the arrival of three twenty- working on their first big
something men, dreamers
looking to make it big in Hol-
lywood. Thanks to the med-
dling of her mom, she de-
cides to let them stay awhile.
Unexpectedly, the pres-
ence of Harry (Pico Alexan-
der), Teddy (Nat Wolff) and
George (Jon Rudnitsky) is
just what Alice needs to get
her groove back. The guys,
zine. A world where a 40-
year-old single mom is pur-
Home Again sued by no fewer than four
handsome men. But within
Rated: PG-13, for some that fantasy is also a won-
thematic and sexual derfully deft demonstration
material of feminine autonomy in
Running time: 1 hour, matters of sex, love and mar-
37 minutes riage. Austen represents the
old way of life, where hus-
Playing: In general release
bands claim ownership of
women and children as
property and step on their
movie deal, turn out to be choices. The three young
fantastic baby-sitters, home guys are evolved enough to
chefs, tech support, even be respectful, practically in
booty calls. How many awe, of female independ-
house husbands does one ence.
wife need? Turns out three But this isnt a tale about
should cover it. a gaggle of young Prince
Home Again is pure Charmings sweeping a prin-
fantasy, all softly lighted, cess off her feet. Its a story of
perfectly styled, looking like a woman making her own
the cover of Sunset maga- life, out of the shadow of her
father, her husband and her
houseguests, and doing it on
her own drawing her own
boundaries and lines in the
sand, whether that means
drunkenly confronting her
nightmare of a client (Lake
Bell) or making it clear she
wont stand for flaky behav-
ior from her younger par-
amour.
This world doesnt quite
exist, but its an exceedingly
pleasant place to escape to
for a couple of hours. Thank
goodness the Meyers mantle
has been passed on to the
next generation. Meyers-
Shyer may have gotten it
from her mama, but the
point of view is all hers.
Walsh is a Tribune News
Service film critic.

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ADDISON TIMLIN and Jeremy Irvine play teens DANNY GLOVER, left, and Zachary Spicer are OLIVIA COOKE plays a music hall performer and
drawn to each other in an epic tale of angels on Earth. priests and John C. McGinley is a Franciscan friar. Bill Nighy a Scotland Yard detective in 1880s London.

FALLEN THE GOOD CATHOLIC THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM

Attractive if not The barbs block Nighy cuts to the

totally angelic
Heaven meets hell in the
film adaptation of Lauren
Kates Fallen, a popular the war between God and
young adult book series
about angels walking the
earth in the form of really at-
tractive teenagers.
Fallen relies on the
Twilight model of ro-
mance, where a meek but
beautiful brunet, Luce (Ad-
dison Timlin), is inextrica-
bly drawn to a brooding,
otherworldly hunk, Daniel
(Jeremy Irvine), driven by
forces beyond their control.
Its faithfully formulaic, but
the cast makes it appealing.
Adapted by Michael
Arlen Ross, Kathryn Price
and Nichole Millard and di-
rected by Scott Hicks, Fall-
en has a sweeping, operatic
aesthetic. After a tragic fire,
Luce finds herself at the
most glamorous reform
boarding school of all time,
Sword & Cross, where she
encounters Daniel and his
posse of impossibly cool
goth-lite pals. Their teacher,
Miss Sophia (Joely Rich-
ardson), lectures only about
Lucifer.
With all of this biblical
lore as well as Luces flashes
of centuries-old memories
and explosive shadows
that follow her, its a complex
but sometimes intriguing
world that Kate has built,
and Hicks has rendered with
a sophisticated style and
stellar cast.
The story has pacing is-
sues: It lingers, then rapidly
takes off before a shockingly
abrupt ending. As a budget
Twilight, it remains to be
seen whether Fallen will
ever get a chance to finish its
story.
Katie Walsh
Fallen. Rated: PG-13, for
thematic material, violent
images, some sensuality,
language and teen partying.
Running time:1hour, 31min-
utes. Playing: In limited re-
lease.
any real feelings
For whatever ails any Ollie (John C. McGinley).
character in The Good Though theres never any
Catholic, theres a snarky real doubt that the rules of
sitcom answer, and that rom-com (even the platonic
puts writer-director Paul kind) and the sanctity of
Shoulbergs hot-under-the- Catholicism will be given a
priestly-collar comedy- once-over, whats annoying
drama on shaky footing in this otherwise well-mean-
early. ing movie is how the barbs
The questioning cleric in become a kind of armor
this Indiana-set story is against real feeling, and the
handsome young Father bland direction offers noth-
Daniel (Zachary Spicer), ing.
dutiful to the gig since it Though its affability will
would have made his late, be enough for some, if youre
faith-driven dad proud, but looking for a truly complex
uncertain its the calling for story of sexual tension, dark
him. humor and religious spar-
Then a young local sing- ring between a beautiful
er-songwriter (Wrenn troublemaker and a man of
Schmidt) shows up for con- God, theres always Jean-Pi-
fession, razzes him on Cath- erre Melvilles Leon Morin,
olic custom, claims to be dy- Priest.
ing and leaves Daniel con- Robert Abele
fused about her motives and
intrigued by her personality. The Good Catholic.
The changes in Daniel ar- Rated: PG-13, for language,
ent lost on his mentor, Fa- including a sexual reference.
ther Victor (Danny Glover), Running time: 1 hour, 37
a humorless man of God, minutes. Playing: AMC
and jokey Franciscan friar Rolling Hills 20, Torrance.
chase in thriller
Unfolding as a more
grisly, campier Masterpiece
Theatre production, The
Limehouse Golem, based
on a 1994 Victorian murder
mystery by Peter Ackroyd,
makes for a perfectly watch-
able if overtly theatrical
whodunit.
With 1880s London set on
edge by a gruesome series of
seemingly unrelated kill-
ings, seasoned Scotland
Yard detective Inspector
Kildare (Bill Nighy, taking
over for Alan Rickman) has
been dispatched to investi-
gate.
Looking for redemption
of his own, Kildare has much
work to do, with his key wit-
ness, music hall performer
Lizzie Cree (Olivia Cooke)
on trial for the fatal poison-
ing of her husband (Sam
Reid), who happened to be
on the Inspectors short list
of suspects.
Given that other poten-
tial culprits include Dan
Leno (Douglas Booth), the
flamboyant music hall star
who took Lizzie under his
protective wing, novelist
George Gissing (Morgan
Watkins) and Karl Marx
(Henry Goodman), theres
ample opportunity for in-
trigue.
But while that intricately
woven tapestry made for a
juicy read, director Juan
Carlos Medina is guilty of
over-stuffing the Jane Gold-
man adaptation with an aw-
fully busy mix of flashbacks
and musical numbers.
Fortunately, the film has
a formidable ally in Nighy,
who shares with the late
Rickman a well-weathered
ennui that cuts through all
that visual fuss to still-en-
gaging effect.
Michael
Rechtshaffen
The Limehouse Golem.
Not rated. Running time: 1
hour, 49 minutes. Playing:
Laemmle Music Hall, Bever-
ly Hills; also on VOD.
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017 E7

AT THE MOVIES: REVIEWS

Kino Lorber

A RITUAL among the Xhosa of South Africas Eastern Cape provides the backdrop for a coming-to-terms story. Nakhane Tour, foreground, is one of the leads.

THE WOUND

Walks away from the past

A Xhosa manhood rite constrains three men who define masculinity differently
bush, Xhosa teenage boys
By Robert Abele from cities and townships
meet their elders to be ritu-
A longstanding manhood ally circumcised without an-
ritual reveals some sobering, esthesia. For weeks, the boys
unintended truths in the are nursed by caregivers
South African drama The graduates of the ceremony
Wound from director John themselves, now acting as
Trengove. Issues of sexual- mentors and groomed to
ity, generational divide, class take on the socially accepted
and self-loathing are cross- responsibilities of adult
stitched into a compelling men, namely commanding
patchwork of edgy mascu- respect, getting property
linity in this tale of a gay and starting a family with a
Xhosa navigating a tradi- wife. Typically seen as a
tionally heteronormative taboo rite, Nelson Mandela
rite of passage away from so- notoriously made open his
cietys gaze. Movies as div- experience with ulwaluko in
erse as Brokeback Moun- his autobiography, calling it
tain and Moonlight may an education in bravery
cross your mind as you and stoicism.
watch, but the psychic and And yet, The Wound
physical scars examined asks, what if your sense of
here are all this movies own. self doesnt conform to this
Every year, in an initia- view of becoming a man?
tion called ulwaluko that When Xolani (Nakhane
takes place in makeshift Tour), a quiet warehouse
camps in the Eastern Cape employee, is called to the
mountains to help oversee a
new round of initiates, hes
assigned Kwanda (Niza Jay
Ncoyini), a pampered, West-
ernized kid from Johan-
nesburg whom his father be-
lieves and needs toughen-
ing. Xolanis reasons for re-
turning to the hills have less
to do with upholding a male-
only tradition than with
eagerly reigniting a love af-
fair with fellow caregiver Vija
(Bongile Mantsai), who has
a wife and child back home.
Kwanda may not fit in
easily with the rowdier,
poorer initiates who taunt
him regularly about his ex-
pensive sneakers and snob-
bish air, but that doesnt
mean hes not fully aware of
the world around him.
Quickly picking up on the re-
lationship between Xolani
and Vija, this unapologet-
ically gay teenager sees an
opportunity to disrupt
The Wound
In Xhosa, Afrikaans and
English with English
subtitles
Not rated
Running time: 1 hour,
28 minutes
Playing: Laemmle Monica
Film Center, Santa Monica
things, turning the tables on
the rituals power structure
by provoking Xolani and Vija
into coming to grips with the
psychological consequences
of their secrecy. If the clos-
eted Xolani and Vija have
been through ulwaluko and
cant fess up to who they are,
the movie wonders, does
Kwandas comfort in his own
skin make the rituals tradi-
tions, and controversial con-
nections with fostering hy-
per-macho intolerance, un-
tenable?
The answer isnt easy,
even if the screenplay by
Trengove, Malusi Bengu
and Thando Mgqolozana,
whose novel about ulwaluko
served as inspiration
takes the tension level into
mildly predictable morality
thriller territory. But Tren-
goves direction keeps things
firmly grounded in the play
of glances and intimacies
under shelter of natures
seclusion dusk-lit silhou-
ettes stealing moments, a
waterfall rendezvous. The
many exchanges among the
storys three main charac- waluko ceremony, he may
ters, whether silent or spo-
ken, communicate more
about the many layers of
masculinity than any of the
ego-boosting mantras
chanted by face-painted
youth in firelight just to
please a bunch of old men.
(Trengove is white, but his
heavily researched, immer-
sive movie never feels an-
thropologically dilettant-
ish.)
The cast is remarkable
too, with Tours quiet inten-
sity like a flame in fear of be-
ing extinguished, while
Mantsais textured portray-
al of a closeted man with a
protective coating of alpha
bullying creates a through
line of emotional suspense.
As Kwanda, watchful and
wise beyond his years,
Ncoyini creates plenty of
sparks with his defensive ar-
rogance. Coming into the ul-
think he knows who he is,
but hell also learn that for
certain men, the need for
self-preservation cuts
deeper than any knife in an
ancient ritual.
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Alison Cohen Rosa IFC Films Lionsgate Premiere Imani Motion Pictures

NICHOLAS HOULT , right, portrays J.D. Salinger, PETER DINKLAGE is an architectural model- VIVICA A. FOX is a veteran actress among a less
and Kevin Spacey is editor-educator Whit Burnett. maker who is obsessed with a memory machine. seasoned cast that struggles to bring the film to life.

REBEL IN THE RYE REMEMORY TRUE TO THE GAME

J.D. Salingers life Dinklages work A strained effort,

in a flip of pages undone by script but true to novel
The journey of J.D.
Salinger from young wise-
acre to world-celebrated au-
thor and notorious recluse
is absorbingly traced in
Danny Strongs Rebel in
the Rye.
The movie opens in 1939,
when budding scribe
Jerome Jerry Salinger
(Nicholas Hoult) takes an
inspiring Columbia Uni-
versity writing class from
Story magazine editor Whit
Burnett (Kevin Spacey).
The action continues
through Salingers deeply
traumatic stint in World War
II, during which he began his
novel The Catcher in the
Rye.
His postwar depression,
writers block, self-sabotage
and soul searching eventu-
ally give way to completing
Catcher, which was pub-
lished in 1951 to unprece-
dented acclaim and, much to
Salingers chagrin, serious
influence.
As Hoults Salinger says
here, he was shackled by
his creation, a state whose
social and psychological
roots and subsequent ef-
fects are credibly, dimen-
sionally etched via director
Strongs smart script, based
on the book J.D. Salinger: A
Life by Kenneth Slawenski,
and by Hoults agile depic-
tion of the gifted, prickly,
tortured author.
Impressive production
and costume design plus sol-
id supporting turns by
Spacey; Hope Davis and Vic-
tor Garber as Salingers par-
ents; and Zoey Deutch as
debutante Oona ONeill
round out this evocative bio-
pic, which also marks
Strongs directorial debut.
Gary Goldestein
Rebel in the Rye. Rated:
PG-13, for some language
including sexual references,
brief violence, and smoking.
Running time: 1 hour,
49 minutes. Playing: Land-
mark, West Los Angeles.
An intriguing idea too
infrequently pays off in Re-
memory, a middling sci-fi
mystery-drama starring Pe-
ter Dinklage as Sam Bloom,
an architectural model-
maker haunted by the
car-crash death of his
musician brother (Matt
Ellis).
Sam becomes obsessed
with the Rememory mach-
ine, a new invention by psy-
chologist-scientist Gordon
Dunn (Martin Donovan)
that allows users to unearth,
visually replay and, if so
desired erase buried or
distorted memories to rec-
oncile the past.
But when Dunn is found
dead of dubious causes, Sam
turns amateur sleuth to
learn the truth.
The result: a plodding
one-man investigation (the
police curiously vanish here)
in which Sam befriends
Dunns widow (Julia Or-
mond) and questions such
potential suspects as
Dunns ex-lover (Evelyne
Brochu) and a troubled test
subject (the late Anton
Yelchin).
Sam also super-conven-
iently steals the only existing
Rememory machine.
It is one of many far-
fetched bits in the often con-
trived script by director
Mark Palansky and Michael
Vukadinovich.
Despite a soulful turn
by Dinklage and some
thoughtful themes and emo-
tions, the film, capped by
an anticlimactic ending, ne-
ver coheres into the grip-
ping, mind-bending pack-
age that was clearly in-
tended.
Gary Goldstein
Rememory. Rated: PG-13,
for bloody accident images,
some violence, thematic ma-
terial and brief strong lan-
guage. Running time: 1 hour,
54 minutes. Playing: AMC
Dine-In Sunset 5, West Hol-
lywood.
In a perfect world, a mov-
ie version of Teri Woods nov-
el True to the Game would
be a bigger deal. Woods pulp
thriller has reportedly sold
more than 2 million copies
since the 90s and pioneered
a new literary form: a cross
between gangster melo-
drama, glamorous romance
and hip-hop-scored slice-of-
life.
Erica Peeples is Gena, a
college student who be-
comes romantically entan-
gled with well-meaning drug
lord Quadir (Columbus
Short). The episodic plot
borders on the scattered, as
Gena and Quadir and their
various friends, family mem-
bers and associates get in
each others way.
True to the Game di-
rector Preston A. Whitmore
II and screenwriter Nia Hill
dont have a big enough
budget to give this story the
scale it needs; and aside
from veteran actress Vivica
A. Fox, the cast is nowhere
near accomplished enough
to bring a bestseller to life.
The movie relies a lot on
flatly staged shootouts and
narrative contrivances, cou-
pled with trite tough-guy
poses.
That said, Whitmore and
Hill do their best to keep the
books fine detail, allowing
the characters to talk at
length about their dreams,
their faith and their loved
ones, in nightclubs and
apartments that look lived-
in.
The movie has enough of
Woods flavor to put a mem-
orable spin on a familiar
genre so much so that its
almost a crime it isnt better.
Noel Murray
True to the Game. Rated:
R, for violence, drug content,
sexuality and nudity, and
pervasive language. Run-
ning time: 1 hour, 48 min-
utes. Playing: Edwards
South Gate; Edwards West
Covina.
E8 F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 017
CAPSULE REVIEWS
Teen
follows
a dark
path
Chilean writer-director
Fernando Guzzonis un-
nerving drama Jess is no
Christ-like parable, but spir-
itual emptiness is certainly
the prevailing mood. The ti-
tle figure, played by Nicols
Durn, is a sexually fluid
high-schooler in Santiago
with a disinterest in educa-
tion or his future and a frosty
relationship with his widow-
er father, Hector (Alejandro
Goic).
With his pal Pizarro (Se-
bastin Ayala), the thrills
are boy band music and sex,
but when a pair of older mis-
creants join in, the focus
turns to drugs and bad be-
havior. The blitzed-out high
jinks take a grave turn one
night in a park, when this
quartet of troublemakers
come across a lonely, wasted
teenager and beat him
senseless. When the as-
saulted kids condition and a
police investigation into it
become news the next day,
Jess quickly discovers
whos looking out for him
and who isnt.
Guzzonis movie is an un-
sparing portrait of aimless-
ness told mostly in the quea-
siest shades and inspired by
the true story of a young gay
man in Santiago left in a
coma after a night of wanton
torture by four attackers.
The plight of a lost gay teen
drawn into violence is also at
the heart of the new Ameri-
can indie Beach Rats, but
Guzzonis movie is grimmer
about family. The movies
last act, for which Guzzoni
saves his ultimate state-
ment on the crisis of dealing
with troubled youth, belongs
to Hector, and Goic a fine
actor takes the baton with
heartbreaking resolve.
Robert Abele
Jess. In Spanish with
English subtitles. No rating.
Running time: 1 hour, 25
minutes. Playing: Laemmle
Music Hall, Beverly Hills.
Two souls seek
human contact
Set along a particularly
downtrodden stretch of
Memphis, Tenn., Jake Ma-
haffys bleakly spare, power-
ful Free in Deed focuses on
a pair of damaged souls who
seek salvation beneath the
harsh fluorescent lighting of
a converted storefront Pen-
tecostal church.
A single mother, Melva
(Edwina Findley), barely
coping with the increasingly
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IN FERNANDO GUZZONIS grim drama Jess, four aimless youths make a fateful decision one night.
violent outbursts of her pre-
teen son Benny (Rajay
Chandler, in a remarkable
debut), who appears to have
a severe form of autism, opts
to place whats left of her
splintering faith in the
hands of Brother Abe
(David Harewood).
Having come from a
dark place himself and still
bearing the visibly pained
demeanor of a tortured past,
the reborn Abe has earned a
reputation as something of a
healer, and, with the encour-
agement of church adminis-
trator Mother (Prophetess
Libra), attempts to purge
Benny of the demonic forces
that he believes to be con-
tributing to his condition.
The fact-based story,
which is allowed to quietly
unfold in a series of extended
takes, has been stripped of
all artifice, especially in re-
gard to the pared-back per-
formances of Harewood, a
British actor with regular
roles on Homeland and
Supergirl, and Findley,
who starred in Ava Du-
Vernays 2012 breakthrough
feature, Middle of No-
where.
Guided by the New Zea-
land-based Mahaffy, theirs
is an achingly raw and ten-
der portrait of two spir-
itually isolated individuals
for whom the laying on of
hands is a surrogate for
some desperately needed
human contact.
Michael
Rechtshaffen
Free in Deed. Not rated.
Running time: 1 hour, 38
minutes. Playing: Arena
Cinelounge Sunset, Holly-
wood.
Indian women
defy constraints
The rousing Indian
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tava, takes on the repressive
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and sexuality in that country
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AT THE MOVIES
There are obvious ante-
cedents for Anti Matter, in-
cluding The Fly, 12 Mon-
keys and Primer and
even the non-sci-fi
Gaslight, in that theres al-
ways a possibility that every-
ones conspiring to make
Ana believe shes going
crazy. The characters toss
around jargon and raise phi-
losophical questions about
how advanced technology
warps the human experi-
ence, but this movie is pri-
marily a mystery, unraveling
whats happening to the her-
oine.
Because the actors deliv-
er every line in a breathless
rush, their performances are
monotone; and because
Burrows throws in new char-
acters and ideas every few
minutes, the resolution to
this story comes out rushed
and goofy and not as poi-
gnant as intended. Anti
Matter shows promise
though even when its
more interesting than en-
Breaking Glass Pictures tertaining.
Noel Murray
The biggest problem for Anti Matter. Not rated.
Gun Shy isnt its ridiculous Running time: 1 hour, 46
premise or its frequently minutes. Playing: Laemmle
silly tone; its that it doesnt Music Hall, Beverly Hills.
fully commit to either. Wests
film doesnt have as much
fun with Turks ineptitude as
it could, but its no fault of its Theres 9/11. And
lead, Banderas. Though the
screenplay by Toby Davies in the dorms ...
and Mark Haskell Smith is
based on Smiths novel Writer-director Ryan
Salty, it feels as though it Frost was a freshman in col-
were written specifically for lege on Sept. 11, 2001 (full dis-
the actor. Hes charming and closure, so was this critic).
funny, owning the long, curly Its a unique situation
wig and rock-star swagger away from home for the first
Gravitas Ventures with ease. The actor is time, living with a group of
RAJAY CHANDLER is a troubled boy whose mom clearly having fun, but it isnt people youve just met and
seeks a spiritual solution in Free in Deed. enough to compensate for trying to process the surreal,
the movies otherwise history-altering terrorist at-
with refreshing candor and will always be the biggest patchy humor and bumbling tacks on the U.S. Frost has
humor. threat to patriarchy. script. tried to capture that potent
Leela (Aahana Kumra), Katie Walsh Kimber Myers period in the one room-set
Usha (Ratna Pathak Shah), September Morning.
Shirin (Konkona Sen Lipstick Under My Gun Shy. Rating: R, for The morning in question
Sharma) and Rehana Burkha. In Hindi with Eng- language, some sexual con- is the wee hours of Sept. 12,
(Plabita Borthakur) are lish subtitles. Not rated. tent and nudity, and drug when five freshmen gather in
very different women, Running time: 1 hour, 57 material. Running time: 1 the dorm room of Eric (Troy
loosely connected to one an- minutes. Playing: Cinemark hour, 26 minutes. Playing: Doherty) and Dish (Patrick
other in the city of Bhopal. 18 and XD, West L.A.; AMC Laemmle NoHo 7, North Cage II) for beer, pizza and
Each seeks to escape the op- Orange 30. Hollywood. one of those endless, ram-
pressive patriarchy that de- bling talks that are ubiqui-
fines their lives and yearns tous in the early days of col-
for a more modern and au- lege. The students all seem a
tonomous lifestyle. Banderas rocks Rapid-fire sci-fi bit nonchalant about the
Student Rehana and events of the day, more ex-
saleswoman Shirin are in silly Gun Shy drama promising cited to talk about sexual ex-
burkha-wearing Muslims, periences and regale their
though the fashion- and mu- Known for big-budget ac- The indie science-fiction pals with their best child-
sic-obsessed Rehana rebels, tion blowouts like Con Air movie Anti Matter sets it- hood tales.
stepping out in modern and The Expendables 2, self apart from similar arty The existential threat
clothing. Shirin has to hide Simon West brings both genre exercises by adopting posed by the terrorist at-
her success at work from her bombast and self-awareness a screwball comedy pace tacks does steer the conver-
abusive, unemployed and to the smaller action come- and a visual style akin to a sation toward philosophical
philandering husband, who dy Gun Shy. While it hyperactive action film. issues, but September
wants to keep her pregnant doesnt bring the explosions Writer-director Keir Bur- Morning is far more con-
and at home. The Hindu or the laughs of previ- rows rapid-fire dialogue cerned with detailing the
women might not wear ous films by the director, it and barrage of images ulti- college experience, with 9/11
burkhas, but they are simi- features an all-out perform- mately prove too exhaust- as a backdrop. There are
larly controlled: aspiring ance from Antonio Band- ing, though its always ener- gestures toward collective
businesswoman Leela is eras that may be enough to getic. political or social conscious-
pressured into an arranged keep some audiences enter- Yaiza Figueroa stars as ness ROTC member
marriage, and widow Usha is tained. Ana, an Oxford-based ex- Dishs jingoistic anger and
shamed for exploring her With his hair-band fame perimental physicist who an encounter with a World
sexuality. long past him, former rock stumbles on a potentially War II vet pizza delivery man
Lipstick Under My star Turk Henry (Banderas) world-changing discovery but they feel forced. Frost
Burkha was initially hasnt left his Malibu man- when she figures out how to memorializes his experience
banned in India for its hon- sion in years. Dragged by his generate and stabilize a of this day, but its just not
est depiction of feminine supermodel wife, Sheila wormhole, which can tele- enough to make a significant
sexual fantasy. Its through (Olga Kurylenko), he re- port objects and people. But comment about the event.
fantasy, creative self-expres- turns to his native Chile for a when she uses herself as a Katie Walsh
sion and career ambition vacation. She is kidnapped test subject, Ana reemerges
that these women define while on a llama tour (of into a world where her col- September Morning. No
who they are as individuals, course) and held for ransom, leagues behave suspiciously rating. Running time: 1 hour,
outside of strict gendered and its up to the lazy, pam- and her memory is riddled 30 minutes. Playing: Vintage
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Its a given that what
cops experience day in and
day out is difficult for citi-
zens to fully comprehend,
especially when most news
about them covers their
worst moments, either their
deaths in the line of duty or
the violence of their own ac-
tions. Ex-lawman Thomas
Marcheses documentary
Fallen is interested in sym-
pathy for police as it per-
tains to the former, and in so
doing has crafted a slick,
mournful, feature-length re-
cruitment video for a job he
sees as unsung, heroic and
dangerous.
Recent tragedies from
coast to coast are detailed,
and the grieving spouses/
partners/chiefs interviewed
by Marchese make for
touching footage. (The film-
maker himself had to end his
career when he was stabbed
by a suspect.) But dont mis-
take Fallen for an insiders
examination of the jobs rig-
ors, its pitfalls, and what can
be done about safety and use
of force.
Theres an air of defen-
siveness here, with a lot of in-
terviewed cops starting off
saying What people dont
understand and narrator
Michael Chiklis an inter-
esting choice, considering
the bad apple crime fighter
he played on The Shield
stepping up the gravity in his
voice when comparing cop
killings to soldier fatalities in
combat. (Its a shoddy, offen-
sive comparison, implying
that militarizing police, and
convincing us that cops
think of their job as warfare,
is Marcheses aim.)
Had a minimal effort
been made to address polic-
ing controversies in the con-
text of an honest argument
that the job is grueling and
perilous, Fallen might
have been more powerful.
Robert Abele
Fallen. Not rated. Run-
ning time: 1 hour, 16 minutes.
Not rated. Playing: Arena
Cinelounge Sunset, Holly-
wood.
Giving voice to
comfort women
Amid all the horrors of
World War II, those visited
on the women of China by
the Japanese occupying
forces are often overlooked.
Director Ke Guos Twenty
Two rectifies that, giving
voice to the surviving com-
fort women in this Chinese
documentary.
Though there are just 22
women left, the Japanese
army turned hundreds of
thousands of women in
China, Korea and the Phil-
ippines into sex slaves, and
their comfort stations
spanned villages and provin-
ces.
Focusing on women in
China, Twenty Two re-
veals name after name and
AT THE MOVIES
TWENTY TWO is a portrait of the surviving comfort women of China.
face after face, and the vol-
ume of the rape is clear and
immense. The women share
their similar experiences
with personal details that il-
luminate their unique lives.
The effects of their impris-
onment linger, with some
unable to speak much about
the occupation period, but
many have also lived rich
lives, surrounded by family
and friends.
Theres an urgency in
Guos mission to capture
these womens narratives as
they climb into their 80s and
90s. Guo previously made a
short film about the same
subject called Thirty Two, tions. Running time: 1 hour,
with the number decreasing
rapidly in just a few years.
Theres no artifice in this
documentary, with the di-
rector simply presenting the
womens lives as they tell
them, one after another.
Slow-moving and
Twenty Two isnt easy to
sad,
watch, but it isnt meant to
be.
Kimber Myers
with Cuba is documented in
Twenty Two. In Man-
darin and Chinese dialects
with English subtitles. Not
rated. Running time: 1 hour,
40 minutes. Playing: AMC
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Moving tribute
to hero of 9/11
Those with the fortitude
to relive the events of the
morning of 9/11 should find
the documentary Man in
Red Bandana a powerful
and inspiring experience.
This film, from first-time
writer-director Matthew J.
Weiss, is a deeply moving
tribute to Welles Remy
Crowther, a young man
credited with saving at least
12 people attempting to es-
cape the crumbling World
Trade Center buildings.
The story is as remarka-
ble for the selfless actions of
24-year-old Crowther, an eq-
uities trader whose office
was on the 104th floor of the
South Tower, as for the fact
that his deeds arent well
known. (He has been post-
humously honored via youth
programs, artistic projects
and sports activities as well
as at 9/11 memorial sites.)
Using archival footage
and photos (some previ-
ously unseen), emotional in-
terviews with Crowthers
family and friends, talks
with 9/11 survivors, dramatic
re-creations and solemn
narration by Gwyneth Pal-
trow, Weiss etches a vivid
portrait of the much-loved
and admired Nyack, N.Y.,
native (and former teen vol-
unteer firefighter), his role
as an impromptu rescuer
and how he lost his own life
in the process.
The ways Crowthers
grieving mother worked to
reconstruct the long-un-
known events of her red ban-
dana-wearing sons heroic fi-
nal hour are also stirringly
recounted.
Gary Goldstein
Man in Red Bandana.
Rated: PG-13, for thematic
material involving disaster-
related images and descrip-
Lucie Arnaz (Desis daugh-
20 minutes. Playing: Laem-
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U.S.-Cuba link
Americas long-standing
history of strained relations
the self-explanatory Em-
bargo, an earnest first film
by Jeri Rice that lacks an in-
cisive point of view.
Rice, who spent three
decades in the high-end
clothing business, traveled
to Cuba in 2002 with a group
of influential women from
the Pacific Northwest, dur-
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Looking for hope in a horror classic
[Muschiettis, from E1]
production design, under
the hand of veteran Claude
Pare, had begun to take on
the feel of its own city. A
modest $30-million budget
for the New Line production
started to grow, though by
how much depends on
whom you ask. The shooting
schedule ballooned, going
from a planned 52 days to
nearly 80.
Now, as the R-rated film
prepares to hit theaters Fri-
day with Bill Skarsgard as
Pennywise and St. Vincent
standout Jaeden Lieberher
as lead loser Bill Denbrough,
it somehow looms even
larger. A trailer did to the In-
ternet what Firestarters
Charlie McGee does to bul-
lets. Tracking suggests a
strong opening north of
$55 million a respite from
a deadly drop of 16% at the
box office this summer.
It, in other words, is
saddled with the hope that
the film can not only redeem
its own tortuous history, can
not only counteract the re-
cent forgettability of the
movie adaptation of Kings
The Dark Tower, but can
resuscitate the commercial
fortunes of Hollywood itself.
We signed up to make a
good movie, said Seth Gra-
hame-Smith, the noted
genre author who is also one
of the films producers, in a
recent phone interview. We
didnt sign up to be box office
saviors. Still, you could hear
the nervous anticipation in
his voice.
This is not by any means
a normal horror movie,
added Grahame-Smith pro-
ducing partner David
Katzenberg by way of expec-
tation-management.
To be sure, It is difficult
source material. Set in dis-
parate time periods nearly
three decades apart (the
1950s of Kings childhood
and the 1980s of the books
publication), the story
spans a massive amount of
events and characters. Good
kids, bad kids, good kids
who may be possessed kids,
parents of all insensitive
stripes. The Losers fears
Pennywise essentially is a
malleable manifestation of
them all requires a white-
board to keep straight.
(They include a mummy,
leper, werewolf, drowning
victims, bathroom blood
and the ghost of a dead sib-
ling.)
The books tone also
veers heavily, from that of a
tender coming-of-age story
In new telling, clown loses some terror
[It, from E1]
scares to life.
In the interest of stream-
lined storytelling and, pre-
sumably, box office, Kings
1,138-page, time-hopping
tome has been bisected into
halves. King interwove a tale
of children battling a sinister
force with the same charac-
ters as adults, decades later,
returning to face it again.
But the film, the first of two
intended chapters in this
retelling, focuses entirely on
the child heroes of Derry and
their inaugural battle with
the supernatural entity that
preys on their fears.
R-rated scares, creepy
clowns, ghastly night-
marescapes, blood-spout-
ing sinks and entirely hu-
man threats abound as It
fills its 135 minutes with
enough impressive visuals
to keep its audience rapt if
not as emotionally invested
as the source material de-
serves.
At least Muschietti be-
gins with a bang, expertly
masterminding a nailbiter of
an inciting moment: Six-
year-old Georgie Den-
brough (Jackson Robert
Scott) follows his prized pa-
per sailboat downstream in
a rainstorm as it lures him to
Pennywise the Dancing
Clown (Bill Skarsgard), a ra-
zor-toothed boogeyman
with a taste for childrens
fears and the personifica-
tion of evil, eyes glinting
from the sewers.
Georgies disappearance
is just the latest in a string of
missing-child cases to hit
Derry, not that the towns
grown-ups can be bothered
to care.
Only Georgies 11-year-
old brother, Bill (Jaeden
Lieberher), holds out hope
for his return, visited by dis-
turbing apparitions of his
yellow-rainjacketed brother
calling to him with an unset-
tling promise: Youll float
IT DIRECTOR Andy Muschietti guides a scene as Jaeden Lieberher, who plays the young Bill Denbrough, stands watch during filming.
to a fearsome horror tale
filled with acts of sexual
abuse, neglect and impris-
onment. And thats just
what the parents are doing.
The Muschiettis have
somehow taken those polar-
ities and doubled down on
them. Pennywise is still chill-
ing, and the kids face tor-
ment from adult and bully
alike. Yet the movie is a
quippy, even jokey, affair
the brutality of an indie
drama with the wry self-
awareness of a modern teen
comedy. (Unlike an ABC
miniseries in 1990, the movie
focuses only on the novels
half that has to do with the
Losers as children, updating
it from the 1950s of Kings
childhood to the 1980s. A
present-day sequel with the
kids as adults is tentatively
in the works.)
The size of the challenge
is obviously considerable,
Andy Muschietti, 44, said. If
someone would come and
tell you that there will be
child abuse and silly humor
together in the same movie,
you would think it was very
strange.
THE LOSERS CLUB in the new Stephen King adaptation It is portrayed by Chosen Jacobs, left, Finn
Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Lieberher, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff and Jeremy Ray Taylor.
It
Rated: R, for
violence/horror, bloody
images, and for language
Running time: 2 hours,
15 minutes
Playing: In general release
too.
As school lets out for
summer, fate pushes Bill
and six other outcasts to-
gether, each tormented by
external and internal fears
and plagued by visions of It:
Ben (Jeremy Ray Tay-
lor), an overweight kid who
tracks the towns tragic his-
tory in his spare time and
leads the gang to the revela-
tion that It comes once every
AT THE MOVIES
I dont know what peo-
ple make of those elements,
he added of a film whose
commercial prospects rest
in large part on viewers ac-
cepting this synthesis. But I
like to think I combined
them in an instinctive way.
Eight years ago the
Muschiettis were in a differ-
ent place. They had made
Mama, a horror short
about two girls afraid of
their mother. The Spanish-
language ditty was a modest
affair, taking place mainly in
one room and costing barely
$25,000, which they paid for
themselves. Their parents
did the catering.
Yet it was enough to at-
tract the attention of famed
director Guillermo del Toro,
who came on as a producer,
and Universal, which hired
them for a feature adapt-
ation. And that film, in turn,
caught the attention of New
Line. Seeking vision at an af-
fordable price after the
Fukunaga chapter, execu-
tives at the Warner Bros. di-
vision brought on the
Muschiettis ensuring that
a couple of below-the-radar
27 years to feed on children;
Richie (Finn Wolfhard), the
wise-cracking bespectacled
loudmouth; Stanley (Wyatt
Oleff), whose bar mitzvah
studies are haunted by a
ghoulish woman from a
painting; Eddie (Jack Dylan
Grazer), a hypochondriac
worrier; Mike (Chosen
Jacobs), a home-schooled
orphan and self-described
outsider; and Beverly
(Sophia Lillis), the flame-
haired tomboy fending off
an abusive dad at home
who finds strength as a
member of this so-called
Losers Club.
The film soars whenever
Muschietti spends time cul-
tivating the crackling pre-
teen chemistry between this
bunch, from spitting loogies
and cliff-jumping in their
South Americans would be
stewarding this very Ameri-
can property.
As children we were fas-
cinated by fear, and the sto-
ries from the U.S. about
fear, Barbara Muschietti
said of some early American
influences as she took a
break in her office across the
stages parking lot. Barbara,
45, is the pragmatic half of
the sibling pairing with her
vision-y and goateed young-
er brother, the hard-charg-
ing yin to his dreamer yang.
We really read a lot of
Stephen King and Edgar
Allan Poe and saw American
movies. I think the interest
in the genre started with
Close Encounters. We saw
it as a horror movie. The fact
that you as a little kid could
be taken to a universe you
didnt know that was
frightening. She also noted
a number of South Ameri-
can authors as formative.
Barbara said it was this
mix of sensibilities that
helped her and her brother
juggle so many tones. And
when it didnt, there was al-
ways a more old-school
Brooke Palmer Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema
tighty-whities to trading
Your mom jokes with the
liberated swagger of foul-
mouthed kids dropping F-
bombs with aplomb. It
successfully brings the
retro-snappy Stranger
Things vibe to the big
screen, in no small part
thanks to actual Stranger
Things star Wolfhard, who
helps keep the cast on its
Stand by Me wavelength
while stealing the movie
with most of the funniest
lines.
But danger is never too
far away in It, whether at
the hands of the omnipres-
ent Pennywise, played with
manic, frenetic menace by
Skarsgard, or in the sadistic
form of the local bully Henry
Bowers (Nicholas Hamil-
ton), whose violent attacks
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trick. Andy goes a little
crazy with the storyboards,
she said.
Tonal blends could also
prove tough for others on
set.
Its hard as an actor to
find the balance between be-
ing strong and being afraid,
Lieberher, a casting direc-
tors recent go-to for sensi-
tive young souls, said during
a break in shooting. Nearby,
Finn Wolfhard, a fellow
Loser junior high-schooler
who also stars in the 1980s
chiller Stranger Things,
mused that it was very in-
tense these are kids, but
theyre kids who can be
screaming. He paused. I
really need to tell my agent to
get me a rom-com.
The actors went back to
another scene. In this one
Skarsgard was lying on the
floor. He shook out his
hands, exaggeratedly ro-
tated his neck, flapped out
one arm, then the other, an
evil vision coming to life after
sitting cooped up in a make-
up trailer for hours. The final
cut would find in his move-
ments a compelling image, a
range from beatings to flesh-
carving and grow increas-
ingly brutal.
Skarsgards Pennywise
wont soon erase the memo-
ry of Tim Currys iconic turn
from the 1990 TV miniseries,
but he does bring a fresh, de-
mented energy to the role.
Elsewhere, It struggles
to modulate the balance of
its ensemble cast.
Several arguably minute
plot points have been al-
tered in this telling, for bet-
ter and worse; Mikes role as
group historian has been
passed on to Ben, for exam-
ple, leaving the former with a
less-fleshed-out back-
ground and sense of pur-
pose, while the fact that he
seems to be the lone African
American kid in town also
serves little relevance within
Brooke Palmer Warner Bros. / New Line
clown that seemed to shape-
shift in front of both charac-
ters and viewers.
Indeed, the cultural
question at the heart of It
is whether visual stylists like
the Muschiettis can do what
they did with Mama (and
in a sense what King did with
the book): craft artfully spe-
cific images that tap into a
universal set of fears.
Its fascinating to watch
a psychopath. Were living in
fear, and there are very capa-
ble forces, like presidential
candidates, that feed off
this, Barbara said of the
turbulent 2016 campaign.
Pennywise is able to repre-
sent things that are more ev-
ident now than ever.
Andy offered a more gen-
eral read.
You have to go to what
the essence of what Penny-
wise is about the dark
power of adulthood, he
said. Its not coincidence all
the grown-ups in town are
evil. This is not a story about
a monster. Its a story about
the end of childhood.
steve.zeitchik@latimes.com
the story, which altogether
avoids addressing the subtle
and overt racism Mikes
family endures in the Derry
of Kings novel.
But other characters are
given room to explore great-
er complexity, particularly
Beverly, who is spared the
most notorious and explic-
itly sexual scene from Kings
novel and, in an astonishing
turn by Lillis that brings nu-
ance to Bevs conflicted feel-
ings about impending wom-
anhood, emerges as the
films tragic and bittersweet
anchor.
Its unfortunate that, de-
spite an R-rating earned
with quick-cutting violence
and foul language, It walks
back on fully exploring the
effect of the traumas it ex-
ploits for movie thrills, rang-
ing from physical violence to
emotional and sexual abuse
at the hands of various
adults, robbing itself of
earned resonance.
This It plays more like
Stephen Kings Goonies,
lacking the nasty bite or gut-
ting emotional weight the
storys underlying bog of an-
guish should have.
Without the benefit of the
novels future timeline to
keep the buoyant optimism
of its characters in check,
theres little sense that these
Losers will go on to live
scarred adult lives or that
their memories of the ugly
business witnessed in Der-
rys sewers may fade from
their minds but ring unfin-
ished in their souls for the
next 27 years.
One should walk away
from It feeling the story lin-
gering like a bruise, a bad
taste on the tongue. Instead,
it floats safely into a snug
Hollywood ending, leaving
all the deeper processing for
the grown-ups to deal with
in the sequel.
jen.yamato@latimes.com
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WEEKEND PICKS
Making note of family
Singer-songwriter
Loudon Wainwright
III takes on a familiar
topic in his first book.
By Randy Lewis

Family. Its humanitys

foundational social unit, one
that encompasses myriad
rich and complex dealings,
which makes it somewhat
surprising that more musi-
cians havent devoted more
attention to examining the
Craig Schwartz myriad interpersonal dy-
namics that they engender.
THEATER But then theres Loudon
Wainwright III, who in

A Greek tragedy
nearly 50 years of writing
songs and recording albums
has built a deep body of work
rooting through the various

near the ocean

facets of family.
He explores that favored
topic in even greater detail in
his first book, the memoir
Liner Notes: On Parents &
Its like something out of Game of Thrones: Agamem- Children, Exes & Excess,
non, king of Argos, seriously considers sacrificing his Death & Decay, & a Few of
eldest daughter to the goddess Artemis in exchange for My Other Favorite Things
fair winds to carry the armies of Greece to the gates of (Blue Rider Press, $27),
Troy, and glory, as Chicagos Court Theatre presents an which arrived Tuesday,
outdoor staging of Euripides classic tragedy Iphigenia which, not coincidentally,
in Aulis. Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pa- was Wainwrights 71st birth-
cific Palisades. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; ends Sept. day.
30. $36-$45. www.getty.edu A stroll through his esti-
mable catalog quickly re-
veals where the major focus
of his attention over the dec-
OPERA CLASSICAL ades has been, with such ti-
tles as Your Mother and I,
Rob Latour The Wallis
IM USED to doing that, writing about the people in my family, the women in my
life, says Loudon Wainwright III of his debut book, the memoir Liner Notes.
from the experience of work- riage, and Im sure youre
ing on Surviving Twin, his thinking, What a selfish bas-
Loudon one-man play that took its tard. But wait a minute, it
title from the song, both of gets worse. He proceeds to
Wainwright which focus on his compli- detail just how much further
III with cated relationship with his downhill things went from
Christopher father, Loudon Wainwright
Jr., the respected longtime
there.
The book also references
Guest Life magazine columnist his romantic relationship
who died in 1988. with Suzzy Roche of the folk-

That tragic Spectacular Unhappy Anniversary,

lass Lucia
Shes sad, shes mad, shes
in plaid, shes Lucia di
Lammermoor. Jamie
Chamberlin and Bevin
Hill share the title role in
Pacific Opera Projects
outdoor staging of Doni-
zettis tragic love story set
in Scotland. Sung in
Italian with projected
English titles. Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, 1712
S. Glendale Ave., Glen-
dale. 7 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday; ends Sept. 17.
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MUSIC & COMEDY
grand finale
The Russians are coming! Knew Your Mother, Di-
Pacific Symphony closes
its summer season with
an all-Russian program
that includes Rachmani-
noff s Piano Concerto
No. 2 featuring pianist
Yekwon Sunwoo and
Tchaikovskys 1812 on Manhattans Upper West
Overture with cannons
and fireworks. Pacific
Amphitheatre, OC Fair &
Event Center, 100 Fair
Drive, Costa Mesa. 8 p.m.
Saturday. $12.50-$99.
www.pacific
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Your Fathers Car, Be
Careful Theres a Baby in the
House, Bein a Dad, Fa-
ther-Daughter Dialogue, I
lated to Meet You, Older
Than My Old Man and
Surviving Twin.
Its what Ive been doing
my whole career, Wain-
wright said recently by
phone from his apartment
www.largo-la.com/event
Side. Hes gearing up for a
run of book signings and
concerts that will bring him
to L.A. for a Q&A with his
friend, actor-director Chris-
topher Guest on Friday at
Largo, and back-to-back
solo performances Saturday
at McCabes in Santa Moni-
ca. Im used to doing that,
writing about the people in
my family, the women in my
life.
Where: Largo at the
Coronet, 366 N. La
Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Cost: $45 (includes a copy
Wainwright said. It spurred
of Wainwrights new
him to suggest that I could
memoir Liner Notes:
Loudon Wainwright III On
Parents & Children, Exes &
Excess, Death & Decay, & a
Few of My Other Favorite
Things)
Info: (310) 855-0350,
conversation with him, and
/1541250-loudon-wain
wright-iii-in-los-angeles
sing the song Unrequited
[To the Nth Degree] [on the
show]. It was a hilarious, bit-
ter breakup song.
At this point, Apatow re-
cites the songs entire open-
ing verse by heart: When I
die/And it wont be long/Hey
youre gonna be sorry/That
My editor at Blue Rider,
Peter Gerthers, saw the
Surviving Twin show dur-
ing an incarnation a couple
of years ago in New York,
as a singer-songwriter. His
write a book or that he
thought I had a book in me.
Then somebody offered
me some money to do it, he
said with one of the laughs
that regular punctuate any
but I didnt want to lay into
so I was up against the wall.
In Liner Notes, he ad-
dresses many of the themes
he raised in the show his
combination of admiration
and jealousy toward his fa-
thers fame and writing tal-
ent and includes several
of his fathers Life columns
to illustrate various points
hes making.
The life reflections ex-
pand from there, and he tou-
pop trio the Roches. She
gave birth to their daughter,
Lucy Wainwright Roche,
who also has demonstrated
considerable musical chops
second marriage, to actress
Ritamarie Kelly, produced
daughter Lexie Kelly Wain-
wright, yet another budding
singer and songwriter.
I wanted to lay [my life]
out as it was, he says now,
anybody in particular. Its
not a tell-all book about
other people. I copped to
stuff Ive been copping to in
the songs for 45 years: drink-
ing, womanizing. Im used
to doing that.
Yet he also writes and
sings about other subjects.
In fact, outside the cult of
devotees whove lapped up
each of nearly two dozen stu-
dio albums since his 1970 de-

Kermit & Co. at the Bowl The real-world result has

often been strained, or bro-
ken, relationships, but Wain-
The Muppets Take the Bowl, and hopefully, theyll give it wright has wrung out of
back when theyre done, as Kermit the Frog and company those troubled situations a
join Thomas Wilkins and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra treasure trove of songs
for an evening of music, merriment and fireworks. Holly- sometimes stabbingly
wood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. 8 p.m. Fri- funny, sometimes painfully
day and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday. $14-$196. revealing, but always bru-
www.hollywoodbowl.com tally honest.
His tone has been a giant
influence on me, said come-
dian and filmmaker Judd
MUSIC Apatow, a longtime Wain-
wright fan who has used him
as an actor and musician in
The Universal songbook movies, including Knocked
Up and The 40-Year-Old
Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena Pops wrap their Virgin and in his short-lived
summer season with Universal Studios Favorites, fea- TV series Undeclared.
turing a selection of film scores, show tunes and more. He used to appear on
With Broadways Jessie Mueller and Jarrod Spector as David Lettermans morning
guest vocalists. Los Angeles County Arboretum, 301 N. show [in1980], Apatow said.
Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $25 and up. I remember being 12 or 13
www.pasadenasymphony-pops.org years old and watching him
you treated me wrong/Yeah
youre gonna be sorry/That
you treated me bad/Hey and
if theres an afterlife/Ill gloat
and Ill be glad.
I found it so funny, but
also very emotional and real
at the same time, he said. I
am such an admirer of his
artistry. Hes a constant
touchstone of what I should
be shooting for; hes the bar
of sticking to your own high
standards and to contin-
ually challenging yourself.
The jacket for Liner
Notes also features a back-
cover testimonial from no
less than author Salman
Rushdie, lauding Wain-
wright as a true original;
not like anyone else, just as
he set out to be.
The book, Wainwright
notes, essentially emerged
ches on his rocky first mar-
riage to the late Canadian
singer-songwriter Kate Mc-
Garrigle, of the McGar-
rigles, who is the mother of
their equally celebrated chil-
dren, singer-songwriters
Rufus and Martha Wain-
wright.
In a passage in the books
chapter that is devoted to
McGarrigle, Wainwright re-
counts their wedding night
with brutal honesty, and a
sharp sense of humor: I
spent most of my wedding
night in front of the tape re-
corder, drinking beer and lis-
tening to mixes of my soon-
to-be-released second al-
bum, while my bride softly
cried herself to sleep in the
bedroom down the hall. It
was a fraught and inauspi-
cious beginning for the mar-
but which landed him
among a string of literate-
minded singer-songwriters
dubbed a new Bob Dylan
at the time hes still best
known for his one and only
Top 20 billboard hit single,
Dead Skunk, from 1973.
He won the 2009 Grammy
Award for traditional folk al-
bum for High Wide & Hand-
some: The Charlie Poole
Project, his tribute to the
early 20th century banjo-lay-
ing troubadour.
Im always drawn to peo-
ple whose work seems vital
and keeps digging deeper,
Apatow said of Wainwright.
They make you realize you
can be as vital as long as you
want, if you have the interest
and the energy to do it.
randy.lewis@latimes.com

Hammer wants you to know this about him

[MC Hammer, from E1]
ty.
And thats what Hammer
is, right?
Maybe.
Yes, the songs that made
him one of hip-hops first
real-deal pop stars 2 Le-
git 2 Quit, Pray, his silky
rendition of the Chi-Lites
Have You Seen Her are
decades behind him. And
no, its not likely hed be
headlining Staples if Fri-
days show werent con-
nected to a splashy network
television special.
But talk with him for a
few minutes and a slightly
different picture emerges,
that of a principled enter-
tainer with more in his head
than a shrinking spotlight.
For starters, the Oakland
native born Stanley Kirk
Burrell is pretty suspicious
of media attention hardly
the norm for someone trying
to stretch his renown for an-
other few years. When we sat
down, Hammer, 55, immedi-
ately wanted to know what
my angle was; hed more or
less stopped speaking with
entertainment journalists,
he said, because they always
approached him with such
shallow questions.
If Im one of five things
that youve got to do this
week, how can you take the
time and really research?
asked the rapper, who was
dressed in a satiny flight
jacket and fitted sweats far
more snug than the so-
called Hammer pants he
2 LEGIT 2 QUIT? Thats MC Hammer as he pursues such issues as education.
once popularized. And in
my case, youve got to re-
search 30 years, which is
how long its been since
Hammer released his debut
album, Feel My Power, in
1987.
They already know the
music! he continued.
Youre not doing a story
about a guy trying to make
an audience. My musics al-
ready been heard by billions.
Billions! So you cant intro-
duce me as an artist.
And anyway, he said, he
long ago took his messaging
into his own hands as an
early adopter of social me-
dia.
Hes also an activist: Last
month, he turned up at San
Franciscos City Hall during
a demonstration meant to
counter a proposed right-
wing rally. And he described
Fridays concert as the af-
ter-party to XQ Super
School Live, an all-star TV
production that will invite
the public to help rethink the
future of American high
schools, according to or-
ganizers.
Yet he retains the in-
stincts of the flashy per-
former who set the table for
raps eventual bling-ifica-
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times
tion. At Staples, his show
will include local dancers,
along with a choir and the
Los Angeles Youth Orches-
tra a higher level of excel-
lence, he called it, and a
spectacle in keeping with
those he brought to MTV
and took on tour in the early
90s.
Nobody told me, Ham-
mer, you should dance.
Hammer, you should make
music with energy. Ham-
mer, you should sing Have
You Seen Her, the rapper
said. His eyes were hidden
behind a pair of large Dolce
& Gabbana sunglasses, but
MC Hammer
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Staples Center, 1111
S. Figueroa St.
Tickets: $59.50-$129.50
Info: staplescenter.com
as he spoke I thought I could
see them glinting with pent-
up irritation. These are all
things I had to do myself.
MC Hammer didnt stop
releasing music after the
90s. There have been al-
bums and scattered singles,
and in 2012 he and Psy
mashed up 2 Legit 2 Quit
with the Korean stars viral
hit Gangnam Style.
Still, Hammer seems out
of step with todays hip-hop
scene, and that might be
partly by choice. He disap-
proves of the way young MCs
such as Future rap about us-
ing prescription drugs like
Xanax and Percocet to get
high.
This stuff is killing kids,
its getting them locked up in
the penitentiaries, he said.
Ive seen the effects on peo-
ple I love, and I despise it. Its
a stench in my nostril. So
whos gonna say something?
I cant wait for the next man.
Ill say it, and I can handle
whatever. Im not trying to
be popular at the expense of
a generation.
Which doesnt mean
popularity is of no interest to
him or that its not a
means to an end. Hammers
goal is promoting peace
and love and harmony and
positivity and healthiness
and family and eternity and
hard work, he said, an ex-
pansive message that of
course requires an audience
to receive it.
And though fans have
demonstrated little interest
in his new music, Hammers
vintage hits have proven sur-
prisingly durable. Just this
year, Fifth Harmony sam-
pled Pumps and a Bump
for its song He Like That.
Might we see him hit the
road as Puff Daddy did with
last years successful Bad
Boy Family Reunion tour?
Well see, Hammer said.
I want to do what I call
events coming to a city
and getting your dancers
and your horn players and
embracing your culture. We
can do that in L.A., we can do
that in New York, we can do
that in Houston.
And, by the way, those
things are on my mind.
Houston is on my mind;
Irma coming to Florida is on
my mind. I was just talking
to the CEO of one of the five
largest corporations in
America I texted him and
I said, Man, Im ready to
help.
As a musician, Im ready.
Im lean and mean; I aint
carrying but 3% body fat, if
that. So Im ready. Youll
see.
mikael.wood@latimes.com
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TELEVISION

Romano getting serious about second act

[Romano, from E1]
smartphone might auto-
correct to ducking.)
My anxiety and my OCD
have been ramped up for the
last month, he says, crack-
ing pistachios inside a Bur-
bank hotel room. Ive been
to the dermatologist eight
times since I got the role. I
swear to God. Im not kid-
ding. I called him again the
other day, but hes on vaca-
tion.
This from the guy who
wondered if the industry,
and audiences, would ac-
cept him as a character be-
yond the bumbling persona
he perfected for nine sea-
sons on the CBS sitcom
Everybody Loves Ray-
mond.
In the 12 years since that
hit show ended, Romano has
certainly put in the work to
be taken more seriously.
There was his turn as a
neurotic, gambling-ad-
dicted, party supply shop
owner in his first post-Ray-
mond project: TNTs Men
of a Certain Age, a dramedy
he co-created with Ray-
mond writer Mike Royce;
an arc on NBCs Parent-
hood as a photographer po-
tentially on the autism spec-
trum; a run as a depressed
record executive in the
aforementioned Vinyl,
which Scorsese executive
produced and co-created
(hence, their connection);
and, earning him critical ac-
claim this summer, his role
as a geeky and endearing
dad in the indie romantic
comedy The Big Sick.
These days, hes making
the dark comedy rounds as
Rick Moreweather, a spiky-
haired low-budget movie
producer in the Epix televi-
sion adaptation of Elmore
Leonards Get Shorty,
which runs Sundays and
was recently renewed for a
second season. (It is a sepa-
rate entity from the 1995
John Travolta film.) Rick, in
a nutshell, is desperate to
prove himself in Hollywood.
That underdog mentality,
Romano knows it well.
As successful as it may
appear I am, I dont really
RAY ROMANO , left, with his costar Chris ODowd, plays a Hollywood underdog
in Epixs dark comedy adaptation of the Elmore Leonard book Get Shorty.
Get Shorty
Where: Epix
When: 10 p.m. Sunday
Rating: TV-MA (may be
unsuitable for children
under age 17)
feel that, he says. Its like,
you know youve achieved
some level of success and
you know what youve done
and yet you still feel you have
more to do and more to
prove. Youre only as good as
your last joke, your last
show, your last whatever.
The confidence is there, but
underneath there is always
insecurity. I totally identify
with that. I see the bad in
everything I do.
A bit of that self-depre-
cation was on display from
the moment the interview
began. The idea of talking
about himself for a pro-
longed interval seemed
daunting and a little absurd.
What do you mean? How
long do you think it takes to
tell your life story? this re-
porter asks. Thirty-six min-
utes, he quickly replies.
Wearing a slightly wrin-
kled T-shirt and jeans
Justin Lubin Epix
which he quickly changed gested meeting twice a week.
into after a photo shoot Romano scoffed. A few
Romano is at least up for the months later, he relented.
challenge. He talks about his Patricia Heaton [his
quirks. Like his talent of be- Raymond co-star] once
ing able to list every capital said its like youre in a sub-
in the world. (Name any marine for nine years, Ro-
country, he says. His mano said. All of a sudden,
groomer, upon exiting the you resurface and your kids
room, shouts: Ireland!. are older and you think, Ive
Dublin, but thats easy. got money, Ill just golf. But
Give me something hard, then I realized, Whats
he retorts.) When asked next? There was this big
about his loyalty to his Casio void. A big identity crisis.
F91W watch, he talks about This fear of Can I do some-
how a recent Last Week thing else? Will I have a
Tonight With John Oliver chance to show I can?
segment which pointed Romano said the indus-
out that the wristwatch was try is more receptive to see-
known to be used by Al ing beyond Raymond. Hes
Qaeda members as timers less sure about viewers.
wasnt enough to make him Royce isnt surprised by
swap it out. Of course, thats Romanos uncertainty.
not to say he didnt fret Thats hard for any actor
about it for a moment. who creates an indelible
Im sticking with it, he character an indelible sit-
says, noting its a relic of his com character, no less, he
stand-up days, used to time said, launching into his Ro-
his sets. mano impression every so
But what of, after all often. Those are the hard-
these years, his anxiety est to get out from under, be-
about forming a new identity cause youve been in every-
in his second act. Has it ones living room each week
calmed? A little bit, he sometimes being a bit of a
says. A little bit. fool, sometimes being a
He recalls the period schlump. Ray was such a
when Everybody Loves good sitcom actor that he
Raymond was winding made it look easy. And I
down and his therapist sug- think people thought he was
being himself. And I think
that made it harder on him-
self to change his image.
Thats why Ray had such a
clear intention to go the
other way.
Romano said he didnt
know how far the other way
he could go until the oft-dark
Vinyl, for which he fa-
mously shot his first nude
scene. In the second epi-
sode, his character contem-
plates killing himself.
I was like What? Ro-
mano recalled of reading the
development in the script.
It was like, How am I going
to? What am I going to?
I had to get to a place I had
never been. And I was a
wreck.
But he remembered a
trick from his former Par-
enthood co-star Mae Whit-
man: putting on some head-
phones and listening to
somber songs that trans-
port you to a moment. So,
the night before shooting
the Vinyl scene, Romano
asked his daughter to help
him assemble a playlist.
There were some Beatles fix-
tures like Hey Jude and
Let It Be and more con-
temporary tunes like Cold-
plays Fix You.
It put me in a bubble
that I just stayed in for that
scene and seemed to work,
says the Queens native, who
still has the playlist on his
phone. Would I have been
able to get there without
that? I don't know.
Romanos other tactic to
help mentally absorb a char-
acter involves writing a
backstory something he
started doing after hearing
Denzel Washington talk
about it. For his Get
Shorty character, fueling
some of Ricks insecurity is
the task of living in the shad-
ow of his director father.
Every backstory in-
volves my father, Romano,
59, reveals. I remember
hearing Gary Oldman talk-
ing about backstories and
saying, I got to stop using
my father ... And I feel the
same way. What I come up
with always involves some
element of this son trying to
prove himself to his father.
To people hes worked
with, its not surprising that
Romano can tap into the
emotion of a scene.
I always felt that his per-
formance on Everybody
Loves Raymond was very
grounded in a way that you
dont often see in multi-cam
sitcoms, said Nanjiani, who
co-wrote and starred in The
Big Sick. And, I dont know
how hell feel about me say-
ing this, but I feel like theres
a melancholy to him thats
very appealing that I felt
would really work on The
Big Sick.
Others havent stopped
taking notice. Romano talks
about some of the high-pro-
file projects that have come
his way in recent months.
But even his successful sec-
ond act, he keeps his come-
dic muscles stretched.
He still performs stand-
up gigs in Vegas or sets at
the Comedy and Magic Club
in Hermosa Beach or the
Comedy Cellar in New York.
Its a high, he says. Im
not a guy who gets high, but I
imagine some highs are bet-
ter than others. But I think
the biggest, most euphoric is
that feeling onstage. You
have no idea when its leav-
ing your mouth how people
react. Its like jumping off a
cliff, you dont know if your
chutes are gonna open or
youre gonna crash to the
ground. When they laugh,
you realize, Oh, youre on to
something. Its the coolest
feeling.
Cooler than being cast in
a Martin Scorsese film?
I have a Top 10 surreal
list, and this is right up
there, he says of this mo-
ment and of his career. Also
in there is having lunch with
Johnny Carson. Working
with Martin Scorsese again
is there too.
A beat.
Heck, having him fire me
would also be up there.
At least hes not too
scared to crack jokes.
yvonne.villarreal
@latimes.com
Twitter: @villarrealy

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In the pre-stalking stage

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HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Solitude can be healing,
though some people will go
to great lengths to avoid it.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Some will lower their in-
hibitions through chemi-
cals. Its healthier to lower
your inhibitions through a
mind-set or through phys-
ical activity instead.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
Attention isnt the goal for
you today. Youve good rea-
sons for wanting to go under
the radar.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
In some ways youll feel more
influential and important to
people who are far away
from you than you will to
those at an arms length.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
Listen for the real message.
You dont necessarily have
to address it now, but defi-
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underlying truth.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Your analyzing mind is prob-
ably not up to the task of
healing your emotional
wounds. Instead, employ
your heart and body to that
task.
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Today youre like a jazz mu-
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Narrow the gap between
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you want to be.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): Theres a person
who, lately, tends to put a
twist in the mood to enable a
downward spiral. If this
character is unavoidable,
plan ahead and put up emo-
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be.
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Dear Amy: Im 62 and have
been single for 27 years, with
occasional relationships.
Im quite independent, and
if the relationship was no
longer working (for whatev-
er reason), either he or I
ended it with not much fan-
fare involved.
This spring, I met a man
who lives only a few blocks
away from me.
At first it was working
quite well. Then he started
getting angry with me for ab-
solutely no reason. He
started demonstrating ter-
rible jealousy. I would leave
the relationship, he would
apologize, I would forgive
him, and then it would hap-
pen all over again.
I learned that his ex-wife
of 35 years will not engage
him in conversation, and his
children and grandchildren
barely spend time with him.
He told me that his ex-wife
accused him of stalking her
after the divorce.
I finally had to break it off,
with no hope of reconciling. I
have since stopped all com-
munication, although he
continued to text me, beg-
ging me to give him another
chance.
Yesterday my sisters and
I noticed him walking up my
driveway. He placed an en-
velope on my car windshield.
Once he was gone, I opened
it and he was returning a clip
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
I had left at this house, along
with a note that stated, I
miss you, and if you gave us
(me) another chance I know
things would be different.
Is this stalking? Should I
start restraining order pro-
ceedings? Should I reach out
to his ex-wife and see if hell
eventually get over it?
Grandma
With a Stalker
Dear Grandma: You are
not being stalked so far.
However, given this mans
history both his reported
history and his behavior
toward you I agree that
you should be wary.
If you genuinely think it
would be helpful, you could
contact his ex, who might
provide some insight.
Install a No Trespass-
ing sign at the end of your
driveway. If this man comes
on to your property again
and it makes you uncomfort-
able, you could send him a
letter via priority mail: I
have posted a No Trespass-
ing sign at the edge of my
property. Please do not
come on to my property or
contact me again. If you see
him on your property and/or
if he contacts you after this,
you should look into legal
remedies.
Dear Amy: I come from a
family that travels a lot.
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
Each time one of us is on
the road, my mother insists
that we call her halfway to
the destination and again
once we get there.
She will map out exactly
how long it should take us to
get from A to B with no traf-
fic, extra stops, going the
speed limit, etc., and if we
dont call at the time she
thinks we should have com-
pleted the trip, she will start
blowing up our phones with
text messages and calls. My
phone does not sync to my
car, so I would have to phys-
ically answer her text or call.
Weve explained that
what she is doing is danger-
ous, but she refuses to stop.
She did this to me tonight
while I was at the end of a
five-hour drive that ended
well past midnight. Then
she had the nerve to scold
me for worrying her.
Your thoughts?
Stressed by Text
Dear Stressed: Im not
sure why your mother keeps
such close tabs on her chil-
dren, but you should get to-
gether as a group and resist
her control.
You should not read or
answer her texts or calls
while driving.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson to askamy@
amydickinson.com.

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20 Musical set in
Manhattans East
Village ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
22 Shooting marble
23 Xanadu gp.
24 Youngest Simpson
26 Oer there
28 Somewhat,
to Saint-Sans
29 Against: Abbr.
31 Spanish pronoun
32 Pen pals greeting?
33 Removes, as a
temporary hem
36 No-hitter, usually
38 Shot with more detail
39 Hogwarts subjects
40 Ford maverick?
41 Windy City transit
initials
42 Blue Shield offering 7 Obsolete audio 43 Hunky-dory
43 Energy field technology 44 Elizabeth Is line
44 Hardy title teenager 8 Employing 46 Shabby
45 Carpathian Mountains 9 Federal housing 47 Hamilton role
locale assistance program 48 Help with a job?
10 No thanks 49 A __ formality
47 Do diner work
11 Somewhat 50 Shave
48 Roadies box
12 Aloe __ 52 Editors mark
51 Product made from
13 That smarts! 53 Captain hanged for
fermented rice BLISS By Harry Bliss
15 Flight-related prefix piracy BALLARD STREET By Jerry Van Amerongen
52 Game typically
21 I problem? 54 Pac-12 team
with 81 squares
24 Pyrnes peak 56 Salon offering
55 Scram!
25 Mike of Next Friday 58 Spacewalk initials
57 Make less vulnerable to
earthquakes, say 26 Rural agreement
27 Org. that inspects ANSWER TO
59 Straying
60 Countermanded workplaces PREVIOUS PUZZLE
61 Wee 28 Any of 12 popes
62 Muesli bit 30 Treasure chest coins
63 Repairs with turf represented graphically
by two consecutive
DOWN letters in six puzzle
1 Russia had one in the answers (including this
20th century one)
2 Level, in London 32 1875 Alcott novel
3 70s-80s show about a 33 Umas role in The
big family Producers
4 Induced the purchase of 34 Squirrels hoard
add-ons, say 35 Escape destinations
5 Tonight, I Celebrate 37 Fourth dimension
My Love, e.g. 38 Essence
6 Brother of Peyton 40 Budget motel chain 9/8/17
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